Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective.

[eggplant107]

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"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Me:
 >> I really should clear that up, my first name is Pat.

Carol:

> As in Patrick, right, not Patricia?

But I usually go by my middle name, Sam.

>[after quoting some stuff from the book] I don't know, but somehow 
>it seems pretty clear to me that the detentions are for being a
> liar and a cheat, not for using a Darkspell in self-defense or
> otherwise. 

Boy oh boy it's not clear to me, nor do I think it's clear to the
other teachers exactly why the Potter boy is being punished!

> I would hope that your science and engineering teachers
> didn't encourage students to claim the results of other
> students' research as their own 

No of course they didn't. Harry wasn't writing a dissertation full of
footnotes, he was simply told to make various potions to the best of
his ability. And he did as he was asked to do. The fact that he could
make those potions in ways that were better than the textbook ways
should be praised not condemned.

> If Draco could successfully cast the spell, it would be 
> the kind of short-term Crucio that Harry had  already 
> experienced 

You mean Crucio where the pain was so hideously astronomically
horrible that Harry wanted to die, the Crucio where he really and
sincerely wanted to die?  

> not the unique long-term Crucio inflicted by four
> Death Eaters on the two Longbottoms that drove 
> them to insanity. 

And how on Earth did you deduce that, and how on Earth did you expect
Harry to figure that out in the 20'th of a second he had to think
about it?

> Harry knows exactly what Crucio is normally about 

Yes, Harry does indeed know what a Crucio is about, and that is my
point. Have you ever been in such pain you wanted to die? Fortunately
I haven't, I hope my good luck continues.

Eggplant