[the_old_crowd] Re: Marauders/End/Fandoms/TWT&Kirk

[silmariel]

Geoff Bannister:
> 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.

You are right. I consulted the second prophecy part to look for hidden rats, 
but I don't usually check the fair amount of fuzzy canon and movie 
contamination. *resist urge to iron hands*

> '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.....

Oh, sorry, I meant only as far as the years we read on-book, that are touched 
by Harry's heroic aura, I know Slytherin held the cup in previous years, and 
I understand for the storyline it was a nice coup the grace, but it made it a 
bit obvious new Slytherin status as loser.

Asking for Slytherin to win, is too much, but maybe making Ravenclaw win one 
year would have made less predictable the outcome, and give me the idea that 
there was actual competition taking place.

Silmariel