Broken potionvial and Harry expectations WAS: Re: Bad Writing?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 163320

Alla:
> Is that the correct reading of your argument? That Harry is the one
> to blame for daring to expect a good grade for potion well done.
> 

Pippin:
Meh, he also expects a good grade for that guff he gives Trelawney.
How fair is that?

Where did I say that I blame Harry for anything? I'm saying no one
was ever promised that they'd be treated fairly in the WW. 
Certainly Slytherins make no such promise to anyone.

I  said that IMO, Harry wanted a good grade as a mark of approval,
and that it galled him to have Snape's approval withheld unfairly
because he wants approval so much. Since he doesn't admit to
himself that he wants it, he can't even consider whether he's
being  realistic  trying to get it. 

 I don't blame him for that, but it's not a constructive behavior, IMO.

 
> Alla, who thinks that all students have a right to get good grades
> for job well done.
>

Pippin:

And this right is worth dying for, as long as it's Snape who has
to do it?  YMMV, but as people have only one life to give for
human rights, I would prefer that it be spent on the big
ones,  especially when there are killers on the loose.


Pippin