DH and PS/SS

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 175324

lupinlore:

> Oh, one other thing about the last scenes of PS/SS.  At one point we 
> had a lot of discussion about DD's motives in intervening when he did 
> in the manner he did.  Why intervene personally (why not let 
> McGonagall award the points, for instance)?  Why intervene in the 
> most blatant and public way possible?  Why wait until the feast, 
> allowing the Slytherins to think they had won a great victory, when 
> he could have awarded the points immediately after the trio's 
> adventures (IIRC there was about a week between the death of Quirrell 
> and the Leavetaking Feast)?  Well, given what we see in Snape's 
> memories, there seems an obvious answer, although one much simpler 
> than many proposed, and much more brutal.  DD just didn't like 
> Slytherins, and this provided a fine opportunity to stick the knife 
> in -- in front of God, Severus, Minerva, and everybody, I might add.  
> And if he could do so while tilting the scales to Gryffindor and 
> brightening the summer of a child with whom he was "quite taken," 
> then so much the better.


lizzyben:

Ah, yes. Revenge is sweet. And it works! Especially if you have total
power & no one can get you back. Life as Headmaster was good for DD. 

*Adds this to the list*