Marauders/End/Fandoms/TWT&Kirk

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at ...> wrote:

Silmariel:
> It happens the same with house points and the House Cup. I know it can acid 
> rain over the Griffindors entire set of books and housework, rats eat their 
> broomsticks, they can be all petrified and still, they'll get the house cup. 
> PS/SS end told me that, it was just a nice add-on for the heroes to win, so 
> good if you want to cheer up spirits and give a 'heroes win' final, so bad if 
> you want to maintain house points as something to be paid attention to. 

Geoff:
Naughty, naughty!

I agree that the extra allocation  of housepoints at the end of Philsophre's 
Stone was rather suspect, but your following deduction is totally wrong.

Somebody isn't consulting canon.

'Harry made his way down to the end-of-year feast alone that night. He had 
been held up by Madam Pomfrey's fussing-about, insisting on giving him one 
last check-up, so the Great Hall was already full. It was decked out in the 
Slytherin colours of green and silver to celebrate Slytherin's winning the House 
Cup for the seventh year in a row. A huge banner showing the Slytherin serpent 
covered the wall behind the high table.'

(PS "The Man with Two Faces" p.220 UK edition)

This is the summer of 1992 so Gryffindor could not have won the Cup more 
recently than 1985.....