McGonagall as Deputy Headmistress

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116787


.
> 
> feklar--
> 
> yes, but in the later books, it's made clear that they now 
disapprove of punishments that harm or endanger the 
students--MM herself stops Moody from beating Draco as a 
ferret.  <

Pippin:
Physical cruelty, yes. What we would call mental cruelty, I don't 
think so. We don't see any evidence of anyone  interfering with 
Trelawny's morbid predictions, or McGonagall's verbal tirades. 
She can be as blistering as Snape. And Snape himself never 
earns more than a "That will do" from Dumbledore, even when 
he's foaming at the mouth.

> pippin--
> 
> > I think, though, that the terror of the forest was mostly
psychological, and that the children were being watched and
guarded far more closely than they knew all the time they were in 
there.<<
> 
> 
> feklar--
> 
> I prefer not to assume too much into cannon. 

--They walked through the dense, dark trees. Harry kept looking 
nervously over his shoulder. He had the nasty feeling they were 
being watched.--PS/SS ch 13

--Harry had the feeling he had had before in the forest, one of 
being watched by unseen eyes... -- OOP ch 33


Pippin