Marietta and Hermione (was JKR's Messages ) (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

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pippin_999 wrote:> 

> Joining the Death Eaters is a serious business too

Very true.

> did that make it okay for Voldemort to
> have Regulus murdered? 

No. Betraying a good organization is evil, betraying an evil 
organization is good

> If Hermione thought that traitors to 
> the group should be punished 
> with something more than ostracism, 
> the accepted punishmentfor betraying
> student secrets, she should have 
> discussed that with the group 

Why? Hermione couldn't be certain of the loyalty of nearly
half the members of the group. If you planed on keeping 
your word it won't matter in the slightest if she put 
a hex on the parchment or not; and if you didn't plan 
on keeping your word then I just have no tears for you.

Did you ever see a cartoon called Dudley Doright,the man who always 
always always did exactly the "right" thing? It's funny
in a cartoon but such a person in real life would be nauseating.
If Hermione were to actually act in the way you recommend 
she would be so sweet, so very very sweet it would be revolting, 
like the sickly sweet smell of a decaying corpse. 

> Hermione's hex didn't even keep Marietta from
> further betrayals -- it took 
> Kingsley's memory charm to do that. 

Nonsense. Without the hex Umbridge would have learned everything 
while she was still in her office before they even saw Kingsley or 
Dumbledore or McGonagall or Fudge or Percy or Harry. 

>It's a case of choosing the easy path over the right one 

I don't believe in choosing the easy path over the right one,
but I do believe in choosing the easy over the hard, and
even more so I believe in choosing the path that will work
over the one that will not.

> I think Hermione was wrong to use the 
> centaurs' xenophobia as a weapon. 

So let me get this straight, if you had been in Hermione's 
shoes you would have done the "moral" thing and Umbridge 
would have won and Harry would have suffered a horrible death. 
Hermione did the "immoral" thing and as a result Umbridge 
lost and Harry lived.

If morality causes more pain to more people than immorality then 
what's the point of being moral? I'm unethical and proud of
it, the world would be a better place if more people were unethical.

Either that or your ethical ideas are seriously out of whack.

Eggplant