McGonagall’s Impartiality: A Test Case

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We’ve been talking about Harry’s perception that HIS head of house was “strict but fair” while Slytherin’s was grossly biased. I tend to believe that Minerva, indeed, credited (and cherished) that description of herself. Certainly in canon she deducted points from her own house (first year, 138 more than we saw Severus deduct from Gryffindor), and she gave detentions when earned by her own (eight in canon to Gryffindor versus Severus’s six—two more than we saw her award to Slytherins). So we can see that she might believe that she is fair, that she punishes equally transgressions committed by her own house and those of their rivals.
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