McGonagall & punishments: Hair, Long Beautiful Hair, Gleaming, Streaming,..

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 186713

---  "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
 
> Alla:
> 
> ...
> 
> 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
>

bboyminn:

In that moment, the students are lined up to greet newcomers,
foreigners, to the school. In that situation, the students are 
representing the school, and as such, McGonagall has the right
to suppress anything she thinks represents the school poorly.

I don't know about now, but in the past, English schools
were positively and fanatically obsessed with school uniforms.
Even when you were out of school on your own time, you were
still expected to wear your school uniform and to wear it
properly. Even the slightest infraction out of school would 
result in punishment in school.

McGonagall's actions seem mild compared to the fanaticism in
real English schools. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn