CHAPT. DISCUSSION: Chapter 25, The Beetle At Bay

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> Theotokos wrote:
> I have been following this thread some and I cannot stand it 
anymore.  
> Hermione doesn't owe that woman anything!  Rita made Harry and 
Hermione's 
> lives miserable in GofF and never had a seconds pause about it.  

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Well, look at this differently.  Someone in your child's school 
commits a crime.  Your neighbor, instead of turning the criminal in, 
blackmails the criminal.  The crime is no longer beining commited, 
but the criminal is not only not arrested, no one knows about it.

How would you feel about that?  Because this is fiction, we can 
cheer when the good guy pulls one over on the bad guy, and not think 
too much about it.  Of course, not thinking too much isn't what this 
group does.

I'm wondering if JKR gave Hermione these Slytherin tendencies on 
purpose, or if she doesn't see them as such.

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