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Another year has gone by and now it’s time for the Hero Cup to be awarded! First Jafar when Sabrina was in peril with the Villains you bravely stood up to them and saved her! So the Hero House gets 800 . Second Harry you used your powers and saved Evie from Chernabog so the Hero House gets 400 which totals up to 1200 House points! The winner of the Hero Cup is the Hero House! Yay! So Hero House you all will have a Hero dinner party tomorrow

great story worthy of being cannon.

may the Three Friends smile upon your path

Thank you so much, that was desicable what dumbledore did.
Severus was right if dumbledore's motive was really what you wrote then he should have given the trio's points to them and gave neville his points at the great hall before decorating the place for slytherin victory
Not only did he humiliate his own students for the sake of his favorite house no person, he was basically telling the children that playing hero was more important than their lives and 5-6 times more important than trying to stop your friends from putting themselves in danger

That part always irked me so much

Lovely. What Snape didn't realize though was that Dumbledore has been trying t nudge Harry into feeling responsible, important, the one who has to make THE decision. It was a setup for the child, beyond that he had been used as bait.

honestly i do not agree that the trio should have gotten those points. while nevil did deserve them the other 3 didnt.

why?

simple. THEY WHERE first years. any one of us could kick there buts with EASE! if they couldnt stop us what makes them think they can stop 'snape'. they were idiots who broke tons of rules so they could play adventure/hero. they did not need to nor had responsibility to do. if they had behaved the whole year than minerva would have had agreed to check the stone!

I hated that scene. It just shows just how much the Gryffindors are fawned over. Really? They break rules, sneak out after curfew, nearly got themselves killed and then they get points? Tell me how that is not unfair. And if the points had to be given, why do it in public, when Slytherin thought they'd already won? Your story captured that nicely, but I don't think Severus should have been so easy on Dumbledore.

Malfoy shouldn't be angry that Dumbledore is biased for Gryffindor. They have Snape to award them extra points all year and take away extra from Gryffindor, not to mention those detentions to the Forbidden Forest and points for something that was nobody's fault. That's around 150 points just for the Dragon Breeding incident, and if you give Gryffindor back the extra points it got taken away, it should get around a hundred more, assuming that Snape was his usual self consistently through the year. If you factor in McGonagall's probable bias, also taking in the fact that she can't be seen to play favorites as Deputy Headmistress, that's still 200 points at least for Gryffindor. And Dumbledore awarded the Gryffindors 110 points alone. Simply gaining back 150 would've been enough to win.

Yeah, we all saw what Dumbledore did...nothing. Except favor the Gryffindors even more, to the extent that someone they normally would love, i.e., Harry Potter, is considered tainted by being able to talk to snakes.

A great story. Very well written.

Dumbledore is an absolute idiot.

First the golden trio was instructed not to tell anyone what happened in regards to the stone and Voldemort. Then Dumbledore makes a public show of rewarding points for it. It was supposed to be a big secret. Why draw attention to it by handing out massive amounts of points at the last minute? Especially in a public setting? They shouldn't have been awarded points at all. It drew too much attention and encouraged too many questions about why they were awarded even without the public spectacle. If it wasn't supposed to be a secret, why tell the trio to keep quiet? That nonsense at the leaving feast was unnecessary. They'd just bested Voldemort; did they really need public accolades to feel good about how things turned out? What's wrong with a private but sincere, "good job!"? Snape is a Slytherin he should at least acknowledge how foolish it was to make a public spectacle out of something they want kept quiet.

And then there's the point you addressed. It really does look like an intentional slight to Slytherin. And there would be people in all four houses who see it that way. It's just that the ones who hate Slytherin already would be glad of the slight. Also, for the younger students who are still very impressionable the slight against Slytherin by the headmaster teaches them it's perfectly all right to treat the Slytherins badly. It doesn't just promote house rivalry by making the Slytherins resentful; it actively encourages the prejudice against them amongst the other houses. Snape has every right to be furious on his students' behalf.

Also, why reward the children for breaking rules? They could have gotten themselves killed. They nearly did, in fact. While I don't blame the trio for acting themselves when they didn't know how to get the adults to take them seriously, I would think that the adults in question would want to discourage a repeat performance. (Sadly, the only teacher who might have reacted to the urgent situation with due haste was the one they suspected.) Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to say something along the lines of, "That was very brave of you but don't you ever do something like that again. Next time try another teacher." And then promise to take them seriously in the event of another emergency. I can just imagine the fit my mother would have thrown if I'd ever pulled something like that. The children were extremely lucky and someone should have pointed it out to them. They might of met up with Voldemort earlier and been taken out with a couple quick killing curses. And Harry could not possibly have predicted Voldemort's reaction to his touch. Snape is usually quick to point out Gryffindor rashness and the need to discipline it.

Don't even get me started on the stupidity of having the stone in the school in the first place... or setting 'protections' that first years can get past. Why did any of the potions Snape left sitting on the table need to be the correct one for moving forward? If someone had a legitimate reason to be there he could give them the correct potion to carry in with them.

As for the lesson about standing up to your friends...

Well, I do believe that was why Dumbledore saved Nelville for last but I don't buy that it was his sole reason for awarding the points like that at leaving feast. Snape shouldn't either. First of all, Snape was right. No one is going to remember Nelville and his ten points by the time the new school year rolls around. They will however remember the sudden point addition, Gryffindor basically being handed the house cup, and the crazy rumors about famous Harry Potter. Second, if anyone had really paid attention to why Nelville won those points it wouldn't have won him any admiration. It's not that you shouldn't stand up to your friends if they're about to do something wrong, but we're talking about schoolchildren. They'd see what Nelville did as bordering on being a tattletale. Remember how Hermione was a 'bossy know-it-all'? Or just look at how Percy is treated for trying to stop the twins from cruelly pranking people. The lesson about standing up for what's right even against your friends is one that's learned with maturity and it's better taught in a classroom discussion or one-on-one than in the great hall. Such an ineffective lesson does not outweigh other concerns. Really, the spectacle at leaving feast wasn't anything more than a flamboyant celebration of Voldemort's defeat. At the expense of his old house, of course. Why should it matter that no one currently in the house (discounting Snape) had anything to do with him? (Although, I do think it was more about giving Harry the cup as a reward than punishing Slytherin... that was just an added perk.)

I am glad to see someone address at least one of the very real problems with Dumbledore's stunt at the leaving feast and the possible consequences of it. Usually, you just see generalized complaints about it being unfair. Which it was. Malfoy and his goons didn't make up the entire student population of Slytherin. There may have been other students in that house who worked very hard to earn those points and then were basically told that their efforts were worthless because Gryffindor would win regardless. It would probably be very difficult to convince any of them that if the 170 last minute additional points wasn't enough to put Gryffindor in the lead Dumbledore wouldn't have tacked on another 5 points each. (55 to Ron, 55 to Hermione, 65 to Harry, and 15 to Nelville for a grand total of 190 last minute points to Gryffindor.) Or 10 or 15 or whatever it took to give Gryffindor the house cup. I certainly wouldn't be convinced that the 50/50/60/10 point addition was set in stone and would have remained that even if it only put Gryffindor in second or third place.

Snape should not have been so easily pacified.

Excellent story and excellent point... I do think that DD was trying to make the rivalry worse between the two houses and between Snape and Potter.

Ezxcellent! You know, I never really stopped to think about it, but it DOES appear to be cruel, disapointing and unfair to the Slytherin students...the way Dumbledore let them think they won, to later just rub their defeat in their faces...it's just wrong.

I am browsing through old storys... And THIS one is really great! Both had a point, of course, and I am with Severus, that Albus should have given all the points but Nevilles before the feast...

Nice story...

Snape... Happy?

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