Hermione In Trouble?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 120668


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ohneill_2001" 
<ohneill_2001 at y...> wrote:
> Now Cory:
> To answer your question about how Hermione and Umbridge are 
> different, I would respond that I think the difference JKR wants 
us 
> to see is that Hermione's actions were taken in furtherance of a 
> cause that we (the reader) are supposed to believe is "good," 
while 
> Umbridge's actions (and Rita Skeeter's) were taken in furtherance 
of 
> a cause that we are supposed to think of as "evil."  In real life, 
> this is a difficult distinction to grasp -- nobody thinks they 
> are "evil"; the Delores Umbridges of our world do what they do 
> because they believe they are right, and they believe the ends 
> justify the means.  In Potterverse, however, I still think that's 
the 
> message JKR is sending:  If you truly *are* on the side of good 
(and 
> we know the heroes are, because they're, well, the heroes), then 
the 
> ends truly *do* justify the means.

GEO: Except that contradicts the whole issue that she raised with 
Barty Crouch who changed/bent/violated the rules all in order to 
defeat Voldemort through the use of unforgivable curses and later 
deprived Sirius of a trial and sent him to Azkaban for over a 
decade. Obviously what he did, the ends didn't justify the means 
from Sirius's perspective and no doubt from JKR's perspective since 
he does get his comeuppance somewhat when his son turns out to be in 
league with Voldemort, his wife dies and he's shuffled off to some 
minor ministry. 

Yet there isn't much of a difference between Hermione and Crouch 
except Hermione hasn't gone to those extremes, but the fact is both 
have done things less than ethical for the greater good and Crouch 
got his just deserts so now the question is will Hermione be 
punished too for her lapses or is JKR show some favoritism there in 
regard to Hermione.