Exactly. If he'd really been drumming up his own heroism, then he'd hardly have botched the endgame.

I don't quite know what to say about the diversion factor, except that our fun, even if it was sometimes destructive, didn't generally seem to have such a lethal - or well, not lethal, but you know what I mean, cruel - streak about it.

But then I suppose everything about the situation nowadays is more cruel than it was then. More ruthless, anyway.

I mean to say, sure, we were rather heartless sometimes, particularly where Snape was concerned, but we'd never have swiped a whole dormitory just to pin him.