Depression ... in OotP - Cho/Marietta

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110814

HunterGreen wrote :
"Of course that doesn't mean that what Marrietta did wasn't wrong, and
I do  think she deserved to have 'sneak' written across her face."

Del replies :
Wrong according to what rule ? Not according to the law for sure,
quite the contrary. She was obeying the law, she was following school
rules, she was protecting her future and her family, what's wrong with
that ? And we don't know if she ever believed that LV was back.

I also have a problem with the way the enlistment was conducted :
people showed up to an *information* meeting about learning
extra-curricular skills, and they ended up having to enroll in a
resistance group and signing a contract. And when the DA became
illegal, we aren't told that people were offered a choice to leave the
group. All of that was quite wrong too.

I mean, honestly, if our kid belonged to a group who turned outlaw and
started learning to fight the official, elected government, because
their apparently delusional leader is having paranoid ideas, would we
really think that they are doing a bad thing by turning the group in
?? *We* know better, but we have no reason to believe Marrietta did.

HunterGreen wrote :
"I wonder how Cho was when she wasn't around Harry? We only see a 
small window of her behavior, it could be that she was able to 
control herself when she was not around a reminder of what happened 
to Cedric. I don't know if she was necessarily clinically depressed 
any more than Harry."

Del replies :
I'm basing my supposition that Cho was depressed not only on how she
behaves around Harry but also on what Hermione tells us about her
after the Kiss. She says that Cho is crying all the time all over the
place, and that her Quidditch playing has become so bad that she's
afraid she'll be kicked out of the team. To me, those are 2 clues that
something was severely wrong with her. Harry, on the other hand, never
became dysfunctional like that. 

Del