McGonagall ashamed or fibbing?

[ameliagoldfeesh]

No: HPFGUIDX 113301

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
> <susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
<SNIP>  She uses similar "never" lines several times 
> >in the books.  All I can figure is that each instance is worse 
>>than the one before, so she's just "raising the bar" for being 
>>ashamed with each new case!
> > 
> > Siriusly Snapey Susan


A. Goldfeesh here:  

Or, perhaps simply, she found it'd be less effective to say: "I've 
never been more ashamed! Well, except that time Fred and George 
<insert crime>, and that time James and Sirius did <whatever heinous 
thing> and, I can't believe I forgot about that time in my first 
year as Head of Gryffindor House, when Marsha Jennings <did another 
horrible mortifying thing>!"

The guilting just doens't have quite the same ring, ya know?

A Goldfeesh
(who thinks that people should just take a step back every once in a 
while)