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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 120874


charme wrote:
"Cho insisted, so Marietta just blindly followed?  If I take your post
above and your quotes from the beginning of the meeting, this leads me
to believe that Marietta had some sense what the group was about
prior, had doubts about it prior, and *went anyway to follow Cho's lead.*"

Del replies:
Quite the way I see it, yes. But with the major detail that what she
thought the group was going to be about was only practicing DADA. She
wasn't aware of the political quality it would put on.

Charme wrote:
"If I play devil's advocate the way you are Del,"

Del replies:
I'm not playing devil's advocate, I'm only trying to play Marrietta's
advocate, to explain what her side of the story might have been. Even
the worst criminals in RL have lawyers to defend them, so I think
Marrietta can have one too.

Charme wrote:
" why would a teenager go against her inner voice which said "don't do
this, bad idea?""

Del replies:
Huh??? I'm not sure you meant what I understand.
In my church, the worst opposition we have to face where teenagers are
concerned is peer pressure. Even the most faithful and most obedient
kids have a strong tendency to flush their standards and beliefs down
the drain just for the sake of pleasing their friends. I've seen too
many of them do things they would never have chosen to do, simply
because their friends talked them into it.
So I have absolutely no problem believing that Marrietta would go to
those meetings simply because Cho implored her to.

Charme wrote:
" Marietta had a choice and she chose to go, and chose to reveal the
group.  If we go back to DD's statement in CoS it's all about the
choices we make, isn't it?  And the substance or basis of the
septology JKR's created has to do with making the right choice, not
the easy one, correct?"

Del replies:
Which do you think was easier : keep going to the meetings quietly (or
maybe just not going anymore), or reporting the group to Umbridge?
Marrietta didn't have to report the group to anyone, and yet she did
it. This to me strongly indicates that reporting the group was what
she thought was the right thing to do.

Charme wrote:
"If we go along those lines the logical right choice would have been
for Marietta to say no to Cho and not go at all. "

Del replies:
According to what Cho says, it seems like Marrietta did say no to Cho,
but Cho didn't take that for an answer.

Del