McGonagall Head of House for Marauders? (Re: Peter Pettigrew's House)

[frugalarugala]

No: HPFGUIDX 121010


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> "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:
(snip)
> 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.

Frug: 
Ah, but the Marauders weren't punished--they were winked at and 
popular. And Slytherins are assumed villians, at least by the people 
Harry associates with, as he was by the Marauders. His own after 
school experiance has only confirmed that Slytherins are default 
villans and get no credit, since he didn't for his role during the 
war. He was on the good guys side and is STILL seen as the evil, 
greasy git, so even his own personal experiance is still that 
Slytherins are the underdogs and need to be protected. 

But I also think part of it is an act, for the war effort. Look at 
the crap DD pulls--giving the House Cup to Slytherin, only to 
arbitrarily assign point at the last moment, and take it away and 
give it to Gryffindor. That has no purpose other than to alienate 
Slytherins. No, before anyone says it was to reward the trio, no, if 
it were, the points could have been awarded beforehand. Doing it as 
it was done had no purpose other than to alienate the Slytherins. I 
think Snape and DD play good-cop/bad-cop with the Slytherins. After 
all, kids from DE families aren't going to be won over easily to 
DD's side, but Snape is another story. I'd imagine they see him as 
the only teacher on their side, and are quite loyal it him. Which is 
loyalty to DD, by proxy.

--Frug, who believes Snape is perfectly capable of having multiple 
motives.