Hermione In Trouble?

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 120642


Joanne wrote:

> So she's grown up from a girl who feared breaking even the smallest 
rule to blackmailing a reporter to serve her own ends. Morally 
Hermione is treading deep water. 
> 

Now Cory:

I think one of JKR's central messages in the series is that, when 
justice requires it, rules can and should be broken.  In real life, 
this leads to all sorts of ethical questions, not the least of which 
is on whose sense of justice shall we rely in making the 
determination.  

Nonetheless though, I think it's fair to conclude that this is a 
message she is trying to convey throughout the books.  The Trio 
continually breaks rules, yet we do not see them as "bad" characters 
because their reasons are always honorable (well ok, "usually" 
honorable).  By contrast, in OotP, Draco and friends cooperated with 
authority (Umbridge) and followed her rules, and for that we are 
meant to see them as "bad" characters, because the authority figure 
they were following was one that we are meant to see as unjust and 
evil.

--Cory