Hermione In Trouble?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 120655


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

> Yes, Hermione might not have used 
> the finest method in using blackmail, but truth to be told, the 
real 
> problem lies IMO in a reporter that needs to be blackmailed to 
write 
> the truth. Also, these people are at war, and in blackmailing Rita 
> Hermione very well might have saved many people's lives, who njow 
> believe in Voldemort's return and were able to prepare themselves 
for 
> the war. 

GEO: When has a wartime situation ever become a decent excuse to 
bend/violate existing rules. So far what Hermione has done is just 
one of the excesses of trying to win/save lives though not on the 
scale of many of the crimes we've seen in past wars.

My empathy for Rita Skeeter is very limited. She is a nasty 
> and cruel woman who uses the amount of power she has (and yes, 
well 
> read reporters are very powerful people) to destroy the lives and 
> careers of other people by writing mean spirited lies about them. 
> IMO, Rita's punishment was just as much poetical justice, as the 
> memory charm that hit Lockhart. 

GEO: And who gave Hermione the authority to judge and give out 
justice for someone like Skeeter. Yes she is a scumbag reporter and 
she has committed libel, but what Hermione has done was out of line. 

Lockhart brought it upon himself, Skeeter was blackmailed to do it. 
She deserves punishment, but not one made by a teenager with an 
overdeveloped sense of justice.