Anyone else distrubed by end of GOF?

[heiditandy]

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From: heiditandy
Subject: Re: Anyone else distrubed by end of GOF?
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6872] Anyone else distrubed by end of GOF?
Date: 8/15/00 11:10 am  (ET)

<,kids all of a sudden showing lack of remorse (e.g. Hermione and the
bug in the jar, the kids stepping over another kid in the hallway...)>>

Other people have addressed some of the other comments in this post,
but I wanted to defend Hermione & Gred & Forge Weasley here
(a) it's not a lack of remorse that causes her to keep Rita the Skeeter
in a jar - she does it to prevent Rita from publishing more falsehoods in
the paper at such a terrible time (i.e. after the Triwizard Cup finale,
and the description Rita heard of what happened to Harry in the cemetary)
- Rita's got air, and food enough for a fat little beetle, and Hermione
has promised to let her out once they're back in London. That's not lack
of remorse - that's helping friends!

(b) No, Fred probably shouldn't've stepped on Draco's henchkid (don't
remember if it was Crabbe or Goyle) and George, well, stepping on
Malfoy may've been avoidable, but don't forget that Malfoy had just
been advocating killing "muggle-lovers and mudbloods" and was perfectly
chipper about Cedric's death. I don't want to sound like I'm advocating
violence for no good reason, but some people just need to be kicked
sometimes. Especially when you haven't done advanced transfiguration &
don't know how to turn someone into a bouncing ferret yet.