CHAPT. DISCUSSION: Chapter 25, The Beetle At Bay

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 111942

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> 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.

Well, if you don't trust the authorities to actually do the right
thing and if you have a larger aim in mind that supercedes the
supposed justice system, then a private system of justice may be the
right thing to do.  At the point where Hermione decides to keep the
issue secret she had witnessed the Minister of Magic himself break the
law in the most horrendous fashion (administer the dementor kiss on
Crouch Jr. without a trial) in an effort to hush up the evidence and
have the WW continue to live in a lie. So who exactly is Hermione to
turn Rita to? Umbridge maybe? :-)

Salit