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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 123031

>>> Gerry wrote:
>>> 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.  
 
 
>> Lupinlore replied:
>> This comment is so flabbergastingly out of line and downright 
>> immoral that I choose to believe you did not intend to make it.  
>> Kindly review what you have said and be more careful.

 
> Dungrollin interjects:
> 
> Stick to your guns, Gerry!
> I am of exactly the same opinion - and I agree with McGonagall,
> too. 
> If someone is in a position of power and authority and is bent on 
> making your life hell, giving them extra incentive to do it is 
> foolhardy. Nobody is defending Umbridge's actions in those 
> detentions, nor anywhere else. But Harry clearly wasn't listening
> to 
> McGonagall because he went and did the same thing again almost 
> immediately afterwards. 


You're right, Gerry and Dungrollin too.  

It's worth remembering that when Umbridge was finally defeated by the
staff and students of Hogwarts, it wasn't because they defied her. 
She knew how to handle defiance and was prepared for it.

They successfully opposed her by taking her ridiculous rules to their
illogical extreme.  The teachers called on her constantly to put down
fireworks with the result that she ran around the school all day and
was exhausted.  The students charmed the Quibbler so that they seemed
to obey her rule not to read it and had she tried to enforce the rule
she'd have had to check every item they owned to see if it was a
charmed tabloid.

Defiance did nothing except give Harry more physical pain.  Know the
enemy - first rule of warfare.  Harry took a rather long time to
figure that out.

Magda

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