[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Harry and expulsion LONG

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188896

dumbledore11214 wrote:
> I am not forgetting
> that Snape is has taken away 70 House points from
> Harry. But if you look at the lines without any
> preconception, Snape has not yet begun to torment
> Harry--although Harry is interpreting it that way.

Bart:
    I waited, fruitlessly, throughout the series for some Slytherin to 
join Harry's group, and, when asked about his joining in with the other 
Slytherins in their taunting of Gryffindor, notably in Quidditch, to 
reply, "Those are games. This is real!"

    House points are games. They are, in the long run, completely 
meaningless. So is Quidditch, for that matter. And, in DH, Harry finally 
puts aside those things that don't matter, to concentrate exclusively on 
those that do.

    Bart