It wasn’t. Tom deserved it, and he was proving it every day. His reputation amongst his colleague was flourishing, and he was already well regarded by the majority of the Wizarding world for his impressive success in the Triwizard Tournament. Tom had achieved a level of social capital he’d thought impossible for a no-Name muggleborn. Not that he was Nameless, of course, but at present no one else knew about his Slytherin lineage, and they wouldn’t know until Tom returned to Hogwarts for his sixth year.