i spent much of the books going "gyah! Harry! could you just trust Dumbledore's judgement!", so i was always looking for things to vindicate Snape or give him more back story.
it's not entirely sneaky if Gryffindor put the needs of 'his ppl' ahead of the issue of goblins and wizards having a different idea of ownership. it would be 'pragmatic'. i.e. he felt that access to the sword for a Gryffindor in need outweighed it being owned or possessed by any particular person. i mean, i think Harry would have pulled it out of the Sorting Hat regardless of who the headmaster was or what the headmaster's feeling on use of antiques by students was.
actually, sort of on that note, i was interested in that the prologue clearly indicated the Houses were still going, considering all the stuff from.. book 4 or was it 5? about the Houses being a huge part of the problem in the first place. the Sorting Hat telling them it was a bad idea etc.
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Date: 2007-07-25 06:51 am (UTC)it's not entirely sneaky if Gryffindor put the needs of 'his ppl' ahead of the issue of goblins and wizards having a different idea of ownership. it would be 'pragmatic'. i.e. he felt that access to the sword for a Gryffindor in need outweighed it being owned or possessed by any particular person. i mean, i think Harry would have pulled it out of the Sorting Hat regardless of who the headmaster was or what the headmaster's feeling on use of antiques by students was.
actually, sort of on that note, i was interested in that the prologue clearly indicated the Houses were still going, considering all the stuff from.. book 4 or was it 5? about the Houses being a huge part of the problem in the first place. the Sorting Hat telling them it was a bad idea etc.