Hermione In Trouble?

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 120676


SSSusan wrote:

> Which is perhaps why, of the examples discussed, I'm most 
distressed 
> by the Marietta situation, over the Rita Skeeter or DJU in the 
forest 
> or stealing Snape's supplies situations.  Does that make any 
sense?  
> Perhaps the Marietta thing really *was* just as much protection for 
> DD/The Order/The Greater Good as the other two examples... but it 
> just seems in that one case perhaps there would have been a less 
> excessive way to catch the snitch??

Now Cory:

I agree about the hex on Marietta.  In my opinion, what Hermione 
should have done was to hex the parchment, but *warn* the members 
when the signed up that the sheet was hexed, and that by signing the 
sheet they were agreeing to keep the secret or suffer the 
consequences.

Regarding the Skeeter situation -- blackmail is generally wrong, but 
there is a certain poetic justice to Hermione's actions.  Skeeter was 
using her position to ruin Harry's life (and hers, to a lesser 
extent), and she was using the fact that she is an animagus to aid 
herself in that task.  I don't feel a great deal of outrage over the 
fact that it is now being used against her.

As for the centaurs, I would say that situation is more comparable to 
her SPEW crusade than to the other items listed here.  It is another 
case of Hermione failing to understand the nature of creatures that 
have different value systems than her own.  I don't think she 
intended for the centaurs to cause Umbridge any serious harm.  She 
made a serious misjudgement, and if not for Grawp (and Dumbledore 
saving Umbridge), her mistake could have gotten all of them killed, 
but I don't think her intentions were as evil as they've been made 
out by some.

--Cory