Punished For A Kiss? (was Re: Oh my goodness, what book are THEY reading?)

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

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[Del wrote]:
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| I *know* all of that. I *never* mentioned that before because even as
| I got a shock reading about it, at the very same time I realised it
| was completely in accordance with what I know of other school systems.
| It's quite drastically different from my school system (public school,
| not private, in France) and even from the values we had at school
| (competition encouraged in class and on the sports field, but being
| punished because you were kissing someone ??), but *my* experience is
| *not* relevant where HP is concerned.

[Lee]:
I don't think that the loss of points was a punishment for kissing, per se.
I took that as Snape in a seriously bad mood, no doubt due to his
conversation with Karkaroff and the burgeoning of the mark on his arm, etc.
Plus, he had Moody!Crouch keeping tabs on him, too.

IMO, Snape was just striking out.  Remember, he threatened Harry and Ron for
just being in his path.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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