Why didn't Parvati/Lavender do something?(was: Why did Hermione lie?)

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Andrea <ra_1013 at y...> wrote:


> 
> As for why Harry and Ron thought it was important, well, they DID 
disobey
> direct orders from the headmaster -- "follow your prefects back to 
your
> common rooms" (with the unspoken "so we can take care of the troll 
without
> any of you foolish children getting killed!")  As a few others 
pointed
> out, Harry and Ron could have easily just shouted to the prefect 
that
> Hermione was missing and have someone better equipped to tackle 
the troll
> go after her.  They SHOULD have gotten in trouble.  But when a star
> student who NEVER gets in trouble (*cough*teacher'spet*cough*) 
takes all
> the blame on herself, McGonagall probably didn't even think that 
Hermione
> might be lying about it.  So Hermione DID shield Harry and Ron from
> trouble, even if the truth might've done it as well.


Harry and Ron are not the only ones who know where Hermione is and 
that she doesn't know about the troll.  If you remember, Ron and 
Harry overhear Parvati telling Lavender that Hermione had been 
crying in the girls bathroom and wanted to be left alone.  Why on 
earth doesn't it occur to one of these two girls to tell Percy or 
McGonagall where Hermione is and that she's in danger?  I've really 
made an effort not to buy into the common impression of Parvati and 
Lavender as the stereotypical silly, airhead-girls of Gryffindor, 
but their failure to either think, or act in this case doesn't do 
much to disprove this characterization.

Jo Serenadust