Snape and Harry and expulsion WAS: Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets

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Alla:
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> Never is once as far as I am concerned (fight in the bathroom) and IMO if
Draco did not have to be expelled Snape would have done exactly that.

Carol responds:
Why would Draco have been expelled? Harry says nothing to Snape about Draco's
unsuccessful attempt to cast an Unforgiveable Curse, and if Snape knows about it
through Legilimency, he doesn't say anything to anybody about it, and besides,
you can't be expelled for a spell you tried and failed to cast. <SNIP>

Alla:

Because I believe that Dumbledore (bastard as he is in my view) would not have ever made a decision about expulsion of one student without figuring whole truth about the accident. To me this means that he would have used legilimency on Harry and Draco without any hesitation whatsoever. I believe that Harry was totally right that Dumbledore used Legilimency on him (Harry did not know about that of course, but he had a feeling that Dumbledore knew he was lying) when he was talking about hearing voices and many other times.

And yes, to me  if Dumbledore learns the whole truth means Draco is guilty as hell for attacking fellow student with unforgivable curse, failed or not.  IMO of course.


And I am not trying to be sarcastic, but unless you can produce Inclusive the list of Hogwarts rules and punishments that warrants or not warrants expulsion, this is just the matter of opinion that you cannot be expelled for trying and failing the unforgivable curse.

I think that all the times when Snape brings expulsion we can only try to guess whether this is indeed warrants expulsion, however some accidents to me just a matter of common sense. And of course my common sense could be different from yours or anybody else's.

I would also think that the rule that warrants expulsion for attempt to cast unforgivable curse makes much more sense than a rule that allows teacher to snatch away a book from student's hands who was quietly reading the book outside and claim that such rule exists.

JMO,

Alla