But in the OotP incident Draco was helpless and being sat on while shouting 'Your mum!' - the worst insult known to schoolboykind, to which there is only one allowable response: extreme violence.
So if when Harry insults Seamus' mum in OotP, Seamus and Dean (and Neville being held back from joining in) then beat him up, you'd consider that Harry had gotten what he'd deserved?
If apologising across the house divide isn't the kind of thing Harry would do I don't think it would ever occur to us as a possibility.
I don't think Harry's really the pinnacle of morality in the books or for 'us'. The other houses may not have the bitterness of the Slytherin/Gryffindor divide, but divided they all are, and yet Ernie MacMillan and Justin Finch-Fletchely capable of apologising across it when they feel they've wronged Harry, and that wasn't even for anything serious like physically harming him.
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Date: 2006-11-20 07:57 pm (UTC)So if when Harry insults Seamus' mum in OotP, Seamus and Dean (and Neville being held back from joining in) then beat him up, you'd consider that Harry had gotten what he'd deserved?
If apologising across the house divide isn't the kind of thing Harry would do I don't think it would ever occur to us as a possibility.
I don't think Harry's really the pinnacle of morality in the books or for 'us'.
The other houses may not have the bitterness of the Slytherin/Gryffindor divide, but divided they all are, and yet Ernie MacMillan and Justin Finch-Fletchely capable of apologising across it when they feel they've wronged Harry, and that wasn't even for anything serious like physically harming him.