Hermione In Trouble?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 120654


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ohneill_2001" 
<ohneill_2001 at y...> wrote:
> 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.

GEO: How does that make Hermione and co. different from Umbridge and 
co.? From the perspective of the book, both have done things in 
order to further their respective cause. Umbridge may be wrong, but 
how exactly does that make Hermione right? Trying to get her killed 
by the centaurs, blackmailing reporters and cursing her fellow 
students isn't any better than Umbridge using her authority except 
maybe for the fact that Hermione is the underdog while Umbridge has 
the establishment behind her,

Furthermore are we going to see Hermione get her comeuppance just as 
Umbridge get hers and probably Draco, Voldemort and Lucius will get 
theirs. Rowling can't spare Hermione and punish the others for their 
various offenses especially when Draco was practicaly brainwashed by 
his father's ideology.