First potions lesson/Harry getting special treatment and Draco's view of him

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No: HPFGUIDX 145942

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> What special treatment? Are you talking about PS/SS and poor 
> Slytherins being cheated of the House Cup? I am being a bit sarcastic 
> here of course. Trio just defeated Voldemort. I see no special 
> treatment here whatsoever. IMO of course, it was points fairly and 
> very deservingly awarded. And this is also IMO objectively fair win, 
> even if Slytherins do not think so.
> Are you talking about different House Cup competition?

You mean that House Cup that is awarded at the leaving feast where the
banners were already in Slytherin Green and where the headmaster
waited for the last possible moment to humiliate a whole house by
giving the House Cup to their rivals? It is great reading but looking
at it with a bit more empathy than just for Harry it was a very nasty
and unfair thing to do. He could have awarded those points any time
after the trio defeated LV. But he chose to do it this way. Letting
the Slytherins think they had won, letting them have the banners in
their house colours and then take it away  from them publicely. What
did they do to deserve that? 
Gerry