Re: Lily Was To Be The Final Horcrux

Karnak17 wrote:

It was a particularly insensitive display all around. She was giving
Harry points for getting Sirius murdered. I thought at the time I
first read it that it was the single cruelest thing that I'd ever seen
a teacher do at Hogwarts, and that is saying something.

Further, she dismisses Grabbe and Goyle with her luggage, but makes
sure to make Draco stick around to WATCH her reward Harry. Why was it
so important to her that this kid whose father has just gone to prison
recieves an extra dollop of public humiliation? Why didn't she ask him
to leave with his freinds? It was deliberately rubbing his face in his
humiliation, to force him to watch Harry be rewarded for putting Lucius
in prison. Why, (I thought) would McGonagall do that? If she was
TRYING to drive Draco towards the Death Eaters, she could not have done
a better job. But of course, if she is evil, that would have been
EXACTLY what she was trying to do -- with success.

I despise McGonagall, for the above scene, and other reasons. I would
be thrilled if she was evil. It would explain a lot. She'd still be
despicable, of course, but it a good way.



McGonagall had just come back from St. Mungo's where she had been recovering after being hit by four stunning spells.

She was rewarding Harry and his friends for alerting the world to the return of Voldemort and, incidentally, cancelling out some of the penalties which had been unjustly imposed by Umbridge.

Draco had just been gloating that the Dementors had left Azbakan and his father and the other death eaters would be escaping soon.

McGonagall had always displayed an exemplary sense of fairness. I can understand why, in the circumstances, she might have been slightly upset with Draco.
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