Special treatment - yes or no/Rules

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 146174

Orna <ornawn at 0...> wrote:
> Cedric in the maze acts exactly this way – he refuses to take 
> the cup available to him, because he resists this temptation, 
> and feels it to be unfair. Harry – the same. So why do we have 
> to accept that the Slytherins should expect the House Cup to 
> remain theirs? They should offer to give it to the Gryffindors,
> if they had anything like decency in them. (OK, that's 
> exaggerated, but only because we got used to expect so little 
> from them). I think that it is a characteristic DD move – any 
> decent Slytherin would feel it was fair what happened, and any 
> Slytherin who felt that power and winning was above all other 
> values, would be shocked – and rightly so IMO. 


Montavilla47:
There's a big, big difference in giving up the cup because you 
feel it's unfair, or somehow more "right" for the cup to go to 
the other person and having it snatched away from you.

Perhaps, given the chance, the Slytherins would have made the 
gesture of giving up the cup to Gryffindor for the Trio's 
actions.  They weren't given that chance.  

A more apt analogy would be if Harry and Cedric were running 
after the Tri-Wizard cup at full tilt and Croody showed up, 
stunned Cedric, and handed the prize to Harry.