Sadism or not ? McGonagall and her punishments

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 186640

> Pippin:
> The students were being punished for wandering around the school at night, and their punishment had the practical purpose of demonstrating *why* it was  dangerous   for them to be loose without teachers to protect them, without telling them the actual reason, which the students weren't meant to know (although Harry and Hermione do.) 
> 
> They were not sent to catch the unicorn hunter, they were supposed to find the wounded unicorn and help it. 

a_svirn:
And the Unicorn hunter wasn't supposed to find them, while they were supposedly helping wounded Unicorns? Was he supposed to have received an internal memo, asking him to reschedule his nightly outing for a more conventional time?