McGonagall Head of House for Marauders? (Re: Peter Pettigrew's House)
Jen Reese
stevejjen at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 2 18:27:51 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 120991
> Frugalarugala >
> Unless I'm mistaken, we don't know yet when McGonagall became head
> of Gryffindor, we just assume there was no other head-of-house
> between Dumbledore and her. It's possible that she wasn't any more
> than their transfigerations professor, which might be supported by
> Snape's lack of resentment for McGonagall from their school days,
if
> she wasn't in charge of the Marauders...
Maybe McGonagall was head and attempted to reign in the Marauders,
just like she does with the Trio. Snape would see her impatiality as
taking control of the sitaution better than Dumbledore, who appears
to allows heads to monitor their own students. When McGonagall said
in COS, "it's out of my hands, Potter" it sounded like going to
Dumbledore was truly a last resort.
If all that's true, it begs the question: Why does Snape act so
partial to his own house, from what we've seen ;)? Surely he loved
seeing the Marauders punished, yet he pretends not to see his own
Quidditch team hexing players in the hallways. You'd think it would
be the opposite and he would have an over-developed sense of
justice, but no.
Jen
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