Group benefit isn't the problem here, it's depersonalized benefit which makes it hard to stay invested in on the group's behalf. There is 4 houses in a whole school separated also by grade level 6 out of 7 people you aren't going to to see in the classes where the points are mostly being handed out. Which depersonalizes the experiences so much that why would you care about points given out in academic context. Someone answers a question fantastically? Who cares? It's not like you were there. It's kind of like those school wide fundraisers, they had to subdivide down to the class level with a promise of a possible pizza party before you would care at all.
Yup. Strict adherence to an already ancient set of rules of decorum. Looking back on this from our lofty vantage of 2022 it seems pretty horrible, but a british boarding school of the 1900's, run by wand wavers who mostly act like its still the dark ages, this treatment shouldnt be suprising.
Rather, I think the author mentioned that some alterations had been made to Ravenclaw and Gryffindor to permit entry. So, yes, it is possible to change the house entry requirements. They just didn't do it because, rather than make the entirety of Hogwarts accessible, McGonagall only focused on informing houses she felt Hazel could get into the ones Hazel can get into.
I think Hazel realized that perfectly replicating the tiny wand movements McGonagall described with a six foot staff wasn't gonna happen
That would also imply that she'd see expulsion as a punishment instead of a "Get out of Jail Free" card for interacting with wizards and all their nonsense.
Hazelhugs. I am sure that you will someday understand the concept of turning the student body against one another over the big shiny maguffin, but you may be happier not...
I suspect that this sentence is in an unintended state, although Wayne could be "head" as a title? but wouldn't that be capitalised? meh...
I would not underestimate the value of free food to someone who often has to go without...
I was more thinking that she would use an imaginary staff, on the basis that "wands do it, but wands are not for me, and my staff is what I have instead of a wand". She was looking for something whose identity would suit the purpose that a wand had.
Can't speak for people who've gone to boarding schools, but I don't recall having anything like the house points system. Which means we either didn't have one, or we did but absolutely nobody cared about it.
And there it is, something I've been expecting to happen ever since she picked up the tool method way back at the start of the journey. Imaginary tools are convenient in that they're highly intuitive and well-defined, but they also constrain her greatly since a lot of effects her magic could theoretically produce just aren't supported by these mental constructs.
Sort of. She feels it worse in some ways because she's battered from all directions by what people THINK. Enough that she has to disengage and flee multiple times.
Not sure if anyone else pointed this out; the problem may not be that she can't speak.
I like the idea, but I'm pretty sure it's not the problem. After all, she can't be the first person to return to her common room while not wanting to go to bed, and I think it would be a problem if students would get locked out whenever they were feeling too excited to sleep.
But is it a lie if she believes she is telling the truth because she knows what she means? It's most likely a spell that senses honesty and intentions via speech rather than someone installing 'proper' grammar into a barrel that's presumably been around since people spoke like a Shakespearean play.
They could always just say 'I want to get into the common room', or specifically 'my house common room' and still be telling the truth though.
