[HPforGrownups] Re: DA Question

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"(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)" <n2fgc at arrl.net> wrote:
| From: Dhyana
| Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:17 AM
|
| The quote from the book has Hermione saying "So if you sign, you're agreeing not to tell Umbridge--or anybody else--what we're up to" (p 346, US edition).
|
| But when the list is being passed around and after everyone signed it, there was no mention of the trio signing it. IMO, it sounds as if Hermione passed
| the parchment around for everybody else to sign, but didn't actually sign it herself or have Harry and Ron sign it.  This would possibly leave the three of
| them free to recruit new members in the future, whom they judged to be trustworthy.
| -Dhyana


And, that thought sounds quite plausible.  Hermione wouldn't need to include Harry and Ron on the document because she knows and trusts them and knows that none of the trio would give the DA  away to anyone who wasn't
trustworthy...at least, not by choice.

Cheers,
Lee :-)



This all sounds great, except I just read Chapter 27 The Centaur and the Sneak

And to Harry's horror, she withdrew from her pocket the list of names that had been pinned upon the Room of Requirement's wall and handed it to Fudge.

"The moment I saw Potter's name on the list, I knew what we were dealing with," she said softly.

This is the scene after the DA had been discovered and Harry has been hauled to AD's office.  From this we can assume that Harry had signed the paper, so we can also take that a step further and say that they all did.  I also question whether they were able to tell others.  Remember when Hr first mentioned forming the DA she stated that it should be open to all who want to join.  Maybe it is jinxed so that any who tell with ill intent as opposed to recruiting, it would know the difference.

moonmyyst 


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