Reposted from Main List: The SNEAK Mark, Scarlet Letters, and Megan's Law

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Haggridd asked :
> " How do you feel about "Megan's Law" and other laws requiring sex
> offenders to register their presence in their community? "
> 
> Del :
I strongly believe in forgiveness. So I'm drawing my
> personal line at the recidive. Abuse once, I forget and assume you 
can
> and will change. Abuse again after having been punished once, and I
> won't ever trust you again. Simple. So I'm of the opinion that
> *recidivists* should have to register their presence.

> Del

OTOH, current medical opinion is that this is incurable.  How do you 
then justify putting child number 2 at risk of molestation by a known 
incurable sex offender?

As for hermione's mark, I don't think it is analogous either to a 
scarlet letter or rto egistering sex offenders, but it doesn't bother 
me that Marietta will have to put up with a few pimples for her 
betrayal of trust.  Hermione didn't twist her arm to join the DA.  We 
the readers know, and the members of DA have come to realize, that 
they are in a war for survival here.  I think that Hermione is 
functioning as a chief of staff to Commander-in-Chief Harry, wth Ron 
as Adjutant.

Haggridd