Hermione attempted murder!

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 69731

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <jbenne27 at t...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vecseytj" <vecseytj at t...> 
> wrote:
> I have been reading this post for a while... and no one says
> > anything about the fact the Umbridge was about to do an 
unforgivable
> > curse on the kids so they would talk!  Umbridge was going to 
torture
> > these children until they talked!  With the same curse that put
> > Longbottoms parents in the Mental ward.  I think Hermione did 
what 
> she
> > *HAD* to do to protect the "gang". 
> > 
> 
> I completely agree with that. Was anyone else *really* disturbed by 
> the fact that she was going to use crucio on Harry? The 
unforgivable 
> curses had to be *approved* for use on DEATH EATERS, its certainly 
> inappropriate to use on a fifteen-year-old who is unable to defend 
> himself and hasn't done anything (violently) wrong. I know that 
there 
> is no actual prove that she said she was going to use it besides 
> Harry and the others word, but I was really disappointed that she 
> simply left the school in disgrace as opposed to being arrested for 
> nearly using the cruciatus curse on a teenager AND sending two 
> dementers after Harry and Dudley. If using a forgivable curse is a 
> LIFE sentence in prison, than surely intending to use one (nearly 
> going through with it, the spell was halfway out) is a serious 
> offence. Basically, I wasn't disturbed at all when Hermione led 
> Umbridge into the forest, obviously Umbridge had reached the point 
of 
> out of control. 
> 
> 
> -Rebecca
> 
> You have it lets face it there are three people that I know won't 
die
> and are going to do the right thing.(Doesn't mean they won't make
> mistakes) and they are Ron, Harry, and Hermione. Here Hermione did 
what
> she had to help her friends and the Order.  Did anyone ever thing 
might
> be working for LV?
>   
> 
I don't know about the Trio being immortal, as JKR herself makes 
allusions about "if..." Harry and his friends make it to grownup 
status.

But that said, I thought Hermione was going to introduce Umbridge to 
Grawp. I don't think Hermione intended on Umbridge dying at all.  I 
think she intended on Umbridge encountering a _MAJOR DISTRACTION_ 
that would allow her and Harry to stun her or otherwise get away from 
her.   

The Forbidden Forest is full of dangers.

The book even mentioned specifically that Hermione was going down the 
path to Aragog's brood, and that Hermione had not been there with 
Harry when that happened.   

So she was going for the Centaurs, and we didn't know that until the 
scene happened and she realized how she hadn't thought it all the way 
through.  

Either way, though,  if Umbridge was worth her salt as a witch, she 
could've defended herself.  An ordinary human would've definitely 
been in deep trouble with centaurs, but a witch on the Ministry of 
Magic who knew the Cruciatus?  I think Hermione didn't consider 
Umbridge to be in mortal danger.

But it was a moment of cheer for everyone who hated Umbridge to see 
her get carried off screaming.  

Indigo