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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