Pansy Parkinson was a jerk, so let's just lock a quarter of our school in the dungeon, including some eleven-year-old kids who have spent this year literally being tortured as part of their schooling, this is in no way overreacting!
This also annoyed me, because I felt that McGonagall is the only adult who really comes out of the books with her integrity intact wrt: children and houses - which is hilarious because she's such a Gryffindor partisan wrt Quidditch etc. But I always felt that she was the only character who took houses exactly as seriously as they should have been: as a means of pastoral support and developing relationships among 11-year-olds, but not great judgments upon the characters of those same 11-year-olds. (And, of course, it doesn't happen that way in the book at all - Slytherins have a choice. And they all choose to leave, which again is not exactly JKR's finest moment, but at least Minerva is intact.)
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Date: 2011-07-21 09:56 pm (UTC)This also annoyed me, because I felt that McGonagall is the only adult who really comes out of the books with her integrity intact wrt: children and houses - which is hilarious because she's such a Gryffindor partisan wrt Quidditch etc. But I always felt that she was the only character who took houses exactly as seriously as they should have been: as a means of pastoral support and developing relationships among 11-year-olds, but not great judgments upon the characters of those same 11-year-olds. (And, of course, it doesn't happen that way in the book at all - Slytherins have a choice. And they all choose to leave, which again is not exactly JKR's finest moment, but at least Minerva is intact.)