Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 165134

> 
> 4. Follow through, or rather the lack thereof, by the "adults".
> 
> It was at this point of the book that I felt, as Magpie puts 
> it, "hard done by" for Harry. The entire staff seems to accept Snapes 
> charges without bothering to find out the "why". Did Harry have some 
> history of greviously injuring other students, even Malfoy? Did that 
> bathroom look like Sectumsempra was the only spell fired off? Who 
> started the festivities?
> 
> I return to Wynnleaf's capable words:
> 
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> In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/165014
> 
> Whether anyone might have thought Harry was justified in using
> Sectumsempra against a crucio makes no difference whatsoever, because
> no one other than Draco and Harry know about the crucio, nor *can*
> they know.


Pippin:
Of course they can. There was a witness. By the time Harry got around
to telling Ron, Ginny and Hermione what happened, "there wasn't much
need." 

Moaning Myrtle  saw and heard the whole thing, and she didn't keep quiet 
about it. "Apparently Moaning Myrtle had taken it upon herself to pop up 
in every bathroom in the castle to tell the story" --HBP ch24.  Why be
so sure that McGonagall's lecture didn't include telling Harry that
*nothing* justifies the use of Dark Magic against a fellow student?

Not even Ginny says that Draco's attempted curse justified what Harry
did, she only says that his friends ought to be glad he had something
good up his sleeve. She's partisan enough to call a spell that's clearly
Dark Magic something good -- but then she didn't see Draco lying
on the bathroom floor bleeding to death.

Pippin