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

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 188845



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> 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.
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> 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.

Nikkalmati

I am not sure what "all the times" consists of.  We can't properly evaluate his true motives unless we have some kind of a list.  He threatens Harry and Ron in this chapter.  HG cries out that they will surely be expelled for hexing SS in the Shack, and then SS covers for the students by telling Fudge that they were not responsible because they were confunded.  Suspension is not the same as expulsion; he never makes explicit what act he considers worthy of suspension (he seems to be just whining here); and, as noted by others, the students are not given any punishment. Are there any other examples? Someone must know of others. 

Nikkalmati
 
> Alla
> 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.
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Nikkalmati

Can you produce inclusinve the list of Hogwarts rules and punishments that does not include such a rule?  I think it makes perfect sense to forbid students from taking library books outside, especially in bad weather. JMHO.

Nikkalmati
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