DA Question

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 102299

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, K G <moonmyyst13 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)" <n2fgc at a...> 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

Lee:
> 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.

moonmyyst: 
> 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.

Geoff:
I've just been reading that bit and I would put a different 
interpretation on it. By the fact that were are not told that Harry 
and Co. did not sign the paper, I assume that they did which would 
bring it into line with the quote above. Perhaps Hermione felt that 
they had now gathered all the likely members of the DA at that point 
in time.