CHAPT. DISCUSSION: Chapter 25, The Beetle At Bay

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 111983

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


Marianne: 

 This makes me think about how a lot of people take Sirius to task 
when he escapes from Azkaban because of his single-minded focus on 
getting to Peter.  Sirius does not attempt to enlist anyone else's 
support, like Dumbledore, to intercede in capturing Peter or to tell 
them about what really happened.  (I'm with Alla on this in that it 
seems reasonable to me that Sirius wouldn't necessarily trust DD or 
anyone else to actually listen to his side of the story, but that's 
another thread.)

What Sirius does is act on his own, seeking to handle the guilty 
party according to his own judgment.  And that's exactly what 
Hermione is doing with Rita.  Both Sirius and Hermione were the 
injured parties in each of their cases, and they both rely on 
themselves in deciding what to do about it when an opportunity 
presents itself.

Marianne