[HPforGrownups] Re: Sadism or not ? McGonagall and her punishments

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 186669

a_svirn
> Yeah, and Lavender was offended that Ron would wear the
> "sweetheart" necklace in public. Obviously ridiculous ornaments
> weren't banned in Hogwarts.

Shaun:

Different school uniform requirements often apply at different times in 
schools. Some occasions require more formal adherence to the rules than 
others.

At the time Parvarti is reprimanded, Hogwarts is expecting its students to 
make an unusually good impression on a group of guests arriving at the 
school. They are expected to be wearing their hats and their cloaks, rather 
than just the robes that seem to be the generally expected uniform most of 
the time - again, just drawing on my own experiences, this is entirely in 
keeping with the expectations that applied during my own schooling, when we 
were allowed to go most of the day without our blazers, but were expected to 
put them on for assemblies and when representing the school (nerds like me 
just wore the thing constantly, except when the weather made it too hot to 
do so). Perhaps McGonagall wouldn't have said anything about Parvarti's hair 
clip on a normal day. This wasn't a normal day. It was a formal assembly.

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