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

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Eggplant wrote:
"You use a thing called "Human Judgment"; there is no guarantee you'll
get it right of course, but it's all we have so you do the best you can."

Del replies:
And yet somehow Marrietta is evil for being wrong in her judgement?
How do you know that she didn't do exactly what you describe : use her
human judgement and do the best she could?

Eggplant wrote:
"Even today we don't have ALL the information on the Nazis, but even
so I am ready to commit myself ; OK here goes, I think the Nazis were
evil. I hope I'm not being too controversial here. "

Del replies:
It's easy to say so today. What would have been interesting would have
been knowing what you and I would have thought of the Nazis in 1938.

Eggplant wrote:
"if pressed I suppose I'd say a good organization is one that does 
mostly good and a evil organization is one that does mostly evil. It
works for me anyway."

Del replies:
What made the DA a good organisation according to that definition, in
the eyes of someone who did not believe that LV was back?

Eggplant wrote
"My copy of the book must be defective; I'm going to ask for my money
back, it doesn't include the scene where Hermione puts a gun to their
head."

Del replies:
Did she give them a choice? Ernie *did* try not to sign but she
cornered him. He or anybody else couldn't wiggle out of that one
without looking bad. For teenagers, such things matter a lot, being
popular and looking good are real pressures.

Eggplant wrote: 
"it did minimize the negative effects that ratting would have."

Del replies:
Such as? I fail to see what negative effects were avoided due to the hex.

Eggplant wrote:
"I start from the position that causing people pain, physical or
emotional, is bad and then I build my morality on top of that."

Del replies:
Good luck!

Eggplant wrote:
"To glibly say that doing X is good because doing X is good and ignore
the fact that doing X puts thousands of people in agony is just plain
crazy."

Del replies:
Is it good to put some people in prison, even though this puts many of
them in emotional and sometimes physical agony, even though it splits
families apart?

Del