Draco is quite the wizard

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 160683

> ibchawz responds:
> I'm not sure it would be called coddling, but Snape does show 
> favoritism toward Draco in GOF during the "Densuageo" incident that 
> Carol mentioned in her post.  Harry hits Crabbe or Goyle (I don't 
> recall which) with the Furnunculus (sp?) spell and Draco hits 
Hermione 
> with Densuageo.  Snape gives both Harry and Ron detentions, but 
Draco 
> does not since Snape saw no difference in Hermione's teeth.  

zgirnius:
This is arguable. Snape started handing out the detentions not after 
DRaco accused Harry of attacking him, and Snape sent Goyle (the 
actual victim of Harry) to the hospital, but after he made his no 
difference comment, and heard Ron and Harry's reactions. He might 
have been planning to ignore the incident, since he had not seen how 
it developed himself. He does hear both Draco's accusation of an 
attack by Harry, and Harry's claim that Draco had attacked him as 
well.

> GoF:
> It was lucky, perhaps, that both Harry and Ron started shouting at 
> Snape at the same time; lucky their voices echoed so much in the  
> stone corridor, for in the confused din, it was impossible for him 
> to hear exactly what they were calling him. He got the gist, 
> however.

> "Let's see," he said, in his silkiest voice. "Fifty points from 
> Gryffindor and a detention each for Potter and Weasley. Now get 
> inside, or it'll be a week's worth of detentions."

It seems possible (especially since Ron, a bystander in the exhange 
of hexes by both Harry and Draco's accounts, ended up in detention) 
that the punishment was for yelling and insulting a teacher.