Marrietta's betrayal

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 110909

ReturnOfTheMutt said:
"We don't know that Marrietta believes Harry, we just know she's there for Cho. Yes, the Quibbler article came out, but a lot of people still weren't convinced.  Umbridge wasn't."


DuffyPoo:
Oh, I don't believe that at all.  I think Fudge was well aware that LV was back ("Finally, he [Fudge] said, with a hint of a plea in his voice 'He can't be back, Dumbledore, he just can't be ...'") but didn't *want* to believe it, and so spent a year in denial and trying to prove DD and HP wrong and at the same time, making the two of them appear delusional.   I think the same of Umbridge, as well as many others in the Ministry in particular and the Wizarding World in general.  Nobody wanted LV back, it's part of the reason no one speaks his name, even after he's 'gone,' but lots of them, I'm sure, believe he wasn't gone for ever and that he would rear his ugly head sometime.  Even Neville's Gran, who so far hasn't appeared to be the sharpest tack in the box, was quoted by Neville, 'My gran's always said You-Know-Who would come back one day."  If she believed it, how many hundreds/thousands of others in the WW believed it as well?


Del replies:
"Cho is right: it *was* a horrible trick on 
Hermione's part to jinx the list and not tell anyone. Practical, but 
horrible."

Bookworm:
"I do agree that is was very sneaky of Hermione 
to attach a punishment without saying anything.  Much more devious 
than I would have expected her to be."

DuffyPoo:
I posted some time ago that I thought Hermione could be a candidate for Slytherin.  Doesn't Phineas say "Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid.  For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks."  When Fred and George shut Montague in the vanishing cabinet, he reappeared quite befuddled and Madam Pomfrey couldn't sort him out, Hermione suggested to Harry and Ron that they go and tell MP so she could cure him. No worries about turning in Fred and George (yes, they had left the school by this point, I think).  However, we don't see Hermione jumping right in to help MP sort out Marietta, do we?  Because she would have to admit what she'd done to jinx the paper (was it one of those 'illegal' things like Polyjuice Potion?) and would have gotten herself in trouble.  We also have a Polyjuiced Hermione in the hospital wing for several weeks before she could be sorted out.  Perhaps because she didn't say 'Oh, by the way, Madam Pomfrey, I got this way by taking PP illegally.'  She kept her info to herself, so it took MP a while longer to sort out a cure (or perhaps it went away by itself).  Brave but not stupid - definitely Hermione.  Choose to save our own necks - definitely Hermione in these two situations.  A candidate for switching houses (if that rumor is true)?  Now, wouldn't that be interesting, Hermione in Slytherin? ;-)

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