[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190742


> > > Pippin:
> > > Remember who Hermione's boggart is? McGonagall bullies her
> > students just as much as Snape. Does that make McGonagall an
> > > every day evil person too?

> > Nikkalmati:
> > I certainly would never suggest that Snape and McGonagall are
equivalent, but I think she falls on the stricter side of the teachers. The
first year she does not punish Harry for flying his broom
> > without a teacher there and instead gives him a position on the Quiddich
team (favortism?). I see no evidence that she changed toward Neville; I also
am not sure it was "fair" to critisize Neville so
> > harshly for losing his list of passwords. And, when did she give points
to the Slytherines (maybe she did, I just don't recall).


Bookcrazzzy:

I think that Hermione's boggart reflects her irrational fear of failure, not
a real bullying of Hermione by McG.  McG is strict and believes in enforcing
the rules but she does ease up once in a while when circumstances are
special.  She does favor her own house, as all of the heads seem to do, and
does positive things for her Quidditch team but I don't think she is ever
abusive to any student of any house.  When it comes to Neville, she tells
him about his grandmother not doing well in Charms and that "his grandmother
needs to be proud of the grandson she has got", and both comments mean a lot
to Neville (this was when she was discussing Neville's choices in
N.E.W.T.S.)