Sadism or not ? McGonagall and her punishments
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Tue May 19 20:06:56 UTC 2009
No: HPFGUIDX 186661
Pippin:
> <SNIP>
> Neville must have taken the list outside Gryffindor Tower, even though he didn't lose it there, or he would have known that it must have been stolen from inside. And for that, IMO, he deserved what he got. <SNIP>
Carol responds:
We know that Neville *didn't* take the list outside. Sirius Black informs HRH that Crookshanks stole the list off "a boy's" (Neville's) bedside table (PoA Am. ed. 364).
So poor Neville is being punished unfairly but doesn't speak up for himself. (He wouldn't be believed if he did, unfortunately.) He's done nothing wrong except to be forgetful. He had no idea that anyone other than a fellow Gryffindor could get into Gryffindor Tower to steal the passwords, much less that the thief would be Hermione's cat. Probably, he thinks that it must really be his fault and that he carelessly dropped it somewhere. But we know that he didn't.
Carol, now wondering how Crookshanks got into a closed room
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