Dumbledore welcomes students to Hogwarts

Posted by chausies@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 4 comments

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Slytherin never won the house cup through "effort and hard work." They won because Snape blatantly cheats. Name ONE time that Snape ever took points away from Slytherin, or ever gave points to anyone not in Slytherin. Spoiler alert: You cant, cause it never happens.

Other heads of house, like McGonagall or Flitwick, give and take points fair and as warranted, from all houses equally. Snape, on the other hand, takes points from other houses for little reason or no reason at all, and constantly ignores infractions committed by Slytherins that clearly warrant point deductions.

When Dumbledore awards last-minute points at the very end of the year, he's just un-doing all the cheating that Snape did throughout the year, and making the results what they WOULD have been if Snape had played fairly.

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loadedtatertots@reddit

Yeah but that's honestly just one of the annoying tropes in the series. Gryffindor is full of all the protagonists and slytherin is full of all the antagonists, and so the house cup is just a contest between these two houses where the other two don't even remotely matter because they're all small side characters and extras. Then of course gryffindor always wins because they're good and slytherin is bad. Like I seriously hate how there's not a single fucking character from either house that has any form of complex morality. If they're from the good house they're unequivocally good, and if they're from the bad house they're unequivocally bad. There's just no question of their nature and no question of which side beats the other. It makes for really boring and predictable characters, and really obvious, redundant conflicts.

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StormOfFatRichards@reddit

It's a book by a child