Invading the enemy's common room (Was: witches of the world )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160494

Carol earlier:
> 
> > What would Hermione's defenders think if Draco had resorted to
similar tactics and Polyjuiced Crabbe, Goyle, and himself to look like
Gryffindors to spy on Harry? Wouldn't readers be up in arms at the
invasion of privacy? <snip>
> 
> Tesha:
> Draco, at least in the early books, would never openly confront his
> enemies. He uses his father and his teacher and his 2 body guards to
> hide behind. You can even see in the later books that he still does
> not want to face being singly responsible for anything. He uses
other people to achieve his goal. 
> 
> and doesn't he make one of his guards polyjuice into a girl to
protect the secrecy of a certain door?
>
Carol again:
I'm afraid you've missed my point. I'm not talking about what Draco
would or would not have done, or about his use of Polyjuice on Crabbe
and Goyle to hide what he's up to in the RoR. I'm talking about the
ethics of HRH's actions in using Polyjuice to spy on Draco in his own
common room. 

I'll say it again more clearly. Wouldn't HRH--and most readers--be up
in arms against Draco and his friends if they used Polyjuice to
infiltrate the *Gryffindor* common room? Yet that's exactly what Harry
and Ron did (and Hermione would have done if it weren't for the cat
fur problem) to the Slytherins. Why is it okay for the Gryffindors to
do what would be considered reprehensible and unforgiveable if the
Slytherins did it? Would you want "the enemy" in your common room,
which is supposed to be for your Housemates alone? 

Sounds like a double standard to me.

Carol, who thinks that if the tables were turned and Polyjuiced Draco
had shown up in Gryffindor tower even in second year, readers would be
condemning him to a fate worse than Marietta's