McGonagall's favouritism. Was: Re: Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 105183

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> Pippin wrote:
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> McGonagall  also uses intimidation and verbal abuse 
("abysmally 
> foolish") and inspires terror in some. Despite her reputation for 
> fairness, she clearly does favor  her own House.
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> Alla:
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> When does McGonagall clearly favour her own house? Yes, 
she got Harry  on the team in the first year. She also took from 
her own house 150  points. We are yet to see Snape take a 
single point from his own  house.<

We also have yet to see Snape press Dumbledore to have a first 
year placed on the Slytherin Quidditch team,  buy a top of the line 
broomstick for one of his players, or bend the rule about first 
years having their own broomsticks. Despite Draco's stated 
desire to get on the team, he has to wait till second year and the 
Slytherin's new brooms are courtesy of Lucius, not Snape.

McGonagall also told the Ministry that Hermione was a model 
student who would never misuse a time-turner, which rather 
implies a certain willful blindness to rule-breaking not unlike 
Snape's. 

I am not saying that McGonagall is as egregiously unfair as 
Snape is, only that this kind of thing doesn't raise any eyebrows 
at Hogwarts. 

Pippin