Hexing the parchment (Was JKR's Messages)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 120776


Dungrollin again:
I was thinking more along the lines of an inappropriately-timed 
attempt to get even, rather than an all-out betrayal, which could 
tip the scales at a vital moment.  
Marietta's not a bad person, and neither is Hermione.  Since 
everybody now knows that Voldy's back, they're all on the same side -
there'll be a new Minister of Magic, and everyone will be working 
together (apart from the bad 'uns, obviously).  But if Marietta 
nurses a specific grudge against Hermione, and there's an 
opportunity to get even with her she might take it, jeopardising ... 
something vital that Hermione will have to do.  


Alla:

We don't really know whether Marietta is a bad person or not,IMO only.

It could be that she is just a victim of circumstances trying to be 
loyal to her mother and her friends, it also could be that she is a 
Peter Pettigrew in making (the traitor not a spy one :o)).

NO, I don't think that she is the one, but IMO, she needed to be 
punished for her betrayal, just maybe not as harshly as Hermione did

But again in this post I am not talking about appropriatness of 
Hermione's actions.

Just my opinion,

Alla