Have you forgotten the time I had to go about with 'Filthy Mudblood' on my forehead? Or when Carrow made Terry's clothes disappear? There are loads of awful things that have happened or could happen. We've endured them before and will again.
The point isn't about shaming her publicly (though I still say that it just makes you as mean as the person you're shaming). It's having done it in a way that robs her of her self-control. I'm sure it was funny at the time, and I'm not saying I wouldn't have laughed, too, but I would have laughed harder if it was something she'd brought on by herself, instead of being forced to behave so ridiculously.
You could have come up with any number of solutions that didn't involve taking away her choices. If the idea was to harm her in the standings, you could have convinced or confunded some of the sponsors so they'd hate her and downgrade her on the next few challenges. You could have cast an illiteracy hex on her when the next round came, so she couldn't read the assignment. You could have obliviated her memory of her next task. You could have snapped her wand, or damaged it somehow so that she couldn't cast spells correctly.
And if we'd all been talking about it together, we might have come up with one of those options. Even if we'd decided in the end that this was the best possible course, then at least the others would have been prepared for it. I don't just mean Draco, I mean him and Hydra and Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout--everyone who was there.
I know you absolutely hate to admit when you're wrong, Sally-Anne, but...you're wrong this time, about this.
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Have you forgotten the time I had to go about with 'Filthy Mudblood' on my forehead? Or when Carrow made Terry's clothes disappear? There are loads of awful things that have happened or could happen. We've endured them before and will again.
The point isn't about shaming her publicly (though I still say that it just makes you as mean as the person you're shaming). It's having done it in a way that robs her of her self-control. I'm sure it was funny at the time, and I'm not saying I wouldn't have laughed, too, but I would have laughed harder if it was something she'd brought on by herself, instead of being forced to behave so ridiculously.
You could have come up with any number of solutions that didn't involve taking away her choices. If the idea was to harm her in the standings, you could have convinced or confunded some of the sponsors so they'd hate her and downgrade her on the next few challenges. You could have cast an illiteracy hex on her when the next round came, so she couldn't read the assignment. You could have obliviated her memory of her next task. You could have snapped her wand, or damaged it somehow so that she couldn't cast spells correctly.
And if we'd all been talking about it together, we might have come up with one of those options. Even if we'd decided in the end that this was the best possible course, then at least the others would have been prepared for it. I don't just mean Draco, I mean him and Hydra and Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout--everyone who was there.
I know you absolutely hate to admit when you're wrong, Sally-Anne, but...you're wrong this time, about this.