Sadism or not ? McGonagall and her punishments

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> Mesmer44 replies:
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>I didn't get bogged down w/ exactly what
biases (if any) McGonagall had in disciplining her, but just viewing it from
Pavarti not dressing as she's supposed to and obviously breaking a school dress
code, any teacher was well within their rights to call her to task on what she
was doing. Doing it in front of her friends will make it sink in more and is
more in line w/ the kind of real world repercussions that would result from
frivolous or immature behavior in the future. <SNIP>

Alla:

Ok, first of all just wanted to acknowledge Shawn's correction that said accident does not happen at the ball. DUH, Alla. However, I totally agree with those that argue that canon does not really show us that Hogwarts's students hairstyles are subject to many rules if ANY rules.

My disagreement here is not whether McGonagall had a right to discipline her in front of her friends. I dislike it, but really, I had seen Hogwarts teachers doing much worse things. My disagreement is whether she actually **did** something wrong and plenty of canon examples were given upthread to show that IMO it does not really look that Hogwarts girls have any regulations about their hair.

I mean one of the real life rules that Shawn quoted upthread stated something about the hair being tied back if they are more than shoulder length, I think.

Um, Hermione anyone? She does not bother to do anything with her hair before the Ball. And really, that's her choice, not that I am chastising her for that. But I would guess that if Hogwarts has any regulations about girls' hair, it would be a very obvious example for JKR to let us hear McGonagall to tell Hermione to do something about it. She does not and IMO that means that students are free to wear whatever hairstyles they like.

So, no, if there are no regulations, and Parvati did nothing wrong, I do not think McGonagall had any right to do so.

I understand that she was freaking out, however she IMO was chastising Parvati for not comforming to **her** taste and that I find obnoxious and wrong.

JMO,

Alla