McG / DD / Re: Why should Harry be expected to listen to anyone at H...

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 > Lupinlore said:
 > Who has earned Harry's trust (in terms of staff)?  Certainly not
 > McGonagall, who shows herself time and again to be incompetent at
 > securing fair treatment for him (Snip) And yes, it IS McGonagall's 
 > job to secure justice for Harry in these situations.  This is 
 > especially the case in that Harry has no parents to intercede for  
 > him independently. (SNIP)

And she did a very good one. Lets review the situation. On the one
hand we have the school, and on the other hand we have te MoM which is
building an absolute powerbase in this school. We have DU who is sent
to this school with only one purpose: to discredit and neutralize
Harry and DD. 

During the summer Fudge has shown how far he is willing to go for
that. And ofcourse there is the dementor attack itself, which might
easily have been issued by the Ministry itself. 

At the beginning of the school year it is already clear that any
authority DU wishes to make sure she fulfills her job she will get.
Justice? What's that in such an environment? It does not exist. The
school cannot even get justice for the whole of its fifth year, who
probably will all fail their DADA OWLS because they are not allowed to
practice. And under these McGonnagal should have been able to secure
justice for Harry against the MoM itself that is out to get him? 

No, if anybody failed Harry against DU it was Harry himself. Again, he
had all the necessary information. He knew about the rigged trial. He
knew about the attempt to make him miss it and so be unable to speak
out in his own defense. He knew Fudge did everything he could to get
him expelled and how the only reason he did not succeed was because
there was a witness. How Fudge did his utmost to discredit that
witness. He knew about how te Daily Prophet blackened him because of
the MoM's wishes. He knew, because Hermione had it spelled out to him,
that the MoM was interfering at Hogwarts. And what does he do? He
challenges DU, who he remembers from his trial as a Fudge toady. As
McGonnagal said to him 'Where's your common sense?'. 

I think his detention was actually a good thing. He learned the hard
way how far people are willing to go, and with what they can get away
if they have the authority. So for his next actions, he knew the risk.
Too bad he did not manage to control his temper. 

Yes, I know he is fifteen years old. But getting all adolescent is a
really stupid thing to do if somebody has it in for you. Especially if
that somebody makes the rules.  

Gerry