Mcgonagall: gets Harry an expensive racing broom
Also Mcgonagall: that wand needs replacing, Weasley
Whoa there!
Shitpost or not, we do not come after Professor McGonagall on this planet.
It was the best thing a teacher could do in either situation.
You’ve got an abused boy who has never had anything other than the spiders in his cupboard, he is grasping at every new, amazing, thing he finds because it’s all so wonderful? You give him a new, amazing, thing.
You have a boy who grew up in a household where family comes first, where humbleness is key, where taking handouts is seen as embarrassing? You remind that boy that he needs to find a way to replace his broken school supplies and then you sit back and do nothing because you know the family will sort itself out, it always does, and to interfere would be an insult on that perseverance and the family as a whole.
Harry was ecstatic to receive the broom. Ron would have been mortified if his teacher gave him a wand (and so would the rest of the Weasleys).
That’s how you teach.
Not just by knowing which of your kids needs something but by knowing which of your kids will accept something when you give it to them.
WE DO NOT COME AFTER PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL ON THIS PLANET.
