McG punishing Harry and Draco (Re: Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 117745


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> Potioncat:
> McGonagall "assumed" that Harry had tricked Draco into wandering 
> around the castle at night by telling a wild story about a dragon.

And yet she punished Draco as severely as she punished the 
Gryffindors.  Blaming the victim?

> McGonagall jumped all over Harry and the Weasley twin (Fred or 
> George) for "attacking" Draco after he really insulted their 
> mothers at the Quidditch game.  

But we don't know how that would have come out in the end, do we?  
Umbridge interfered before the scene and the situation could fully 
play itself out.  Had she not done so, McGonagall would have probably 
insisted on, and gotten, a severe punishment for Draco.

> Snape isn't the only one who takes Draco's side but no one ever 
> complains about Minnie. 

Because McGonagall *doesn't* take Draco's side.  She comes down on 
everyone with a severity that is probably unwarranted at times, but 
at least even-handed.

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