[HPforGrownups] Re: Who's going to betray the Order?

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 76846

a_reader2003 wrote:
> 
> CW: I'd put my money on Hermione. She wouldn't do it on purpose, but 
> it would be a repeat of the broomstick episode. She'd think she was 
> doing something for the best, but then screw up big time. 

Hermione did not "screw up big time" in the broomstick.  She was 
100% correct to be suspicious of it, and McGonagall agreed.  That 
it turned out to be harmless does not mean that the suspicions 
were unjustified on the evidence available to her at the time.

> I think she 
> shows so much reluctance to go along with his various dangerous 
> sounding schemes, that there's going to be one time too many, and she 
> makes the wrong decision, supposedly for his own good, and provokes 
> disaster. 

Harry's schemes are not just dangerous-sounding, they are 
dangerous.  His using the fireplace in Umbridge's office to talk 
to Sirius the first time, just so he could feel better about his 
father, was incredibly stupid.  His insistence on "rescuing" 
Sirius, despite many warnings that it was a ruse, did provoke 
disaster.  It is Harry, not Hermione, who repeatedly makes the 
wrong decisions.