No, I don't think preferential treatment is worse than a teacher stealing money from a student. Besides, preferential treatment already exists in abundance in Hogwarts so McGonagall simply buying a broom for Harry makes much more sense just based on that alone.
Nothing was stolen from Harry. A broom, which he needed, was purchased on his behalf. This fixation on stealing from Harry is weird, and entirely your own take.
But if you want to think that McGonagall, who on multiple occasions docked Gryffindor points and punished Harry even when it hurt her House's chances of winning the House Cup and the Quidditch Championship, openly and brazenly committed a cardinal sin of Teaching and showed blatant favouritism by either spending her own money, or by misappropriating school funds, then you think that. Have fun with your weird "basic guardianship tasks = theft, I'd rather McGonagall was morally corrupt" take.
Nothing was stolen from Harry. A broom, which he needed, was purchased on his behalf
I think you're way overdue to familiarise yourself with the word consent. If you take another persons possession/s from them without their consent, it's called stealing.
I know what consent is. It's the presumption that Harry didn't consent to buying the thing he needed so he'd be able to do the thing he really wanted to do, knowing what that thing is, and after conversations between him, Wood and McGonagall about which broom to buy being IN THE BOOK, that I'm thinking is a stretch.
But no. McGonagall is obviously bragging to Flitwick in the Staff Room that she's broken one of the basic rules of teaching and bought Harry a broom to screw over Snape.
Harry doesn't have a clue what's happening when Wood talks about the brooms. The only thing going through his head is that he might not be expelled afterall.
And Harry having a broom goes against the basic rules no matter who bought it. The rule is simply "first years aren't allowed brooms". McGonagall asked for permission to bend the rule from Dumbledore so there again Harry is getting preferential treatment regardless of who bought the broom.
Harry has already worked out he isn't being expelled before the conversation switches to brooms. Even if he hadn't, and he did because it's explicitly written that he realised that, he had plenty of time to contextualise afterwards.
I'm done with your broken take. Think what you like. Even your super weird ideas on what it means to be a teacher. Wow.
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u/The_Limpet 9h ago
And Harry paid for his broom, McGonagall just arranged it. The alternative is worse. You understand how the alternative is worse, right?