The Beetle At Bay

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112109

Marianne
"I do think she is a good person, and I think that she rarely, if ever, 
does something morally questionable to further her own ends."


DuffyPoo:
Sorry, I haven't been following this whole thread but this really jumped out at me.  Hermione made NO attempt to tell Madam Pomfrey about the jinx she used on the paper the DA memebers signed.  Marietta went home with "SNEAK" across her face (the DA were caught sometime in April).  Why?  Because telling would possibly get her in trouble?  I've said this before.  When Fred and George shut Montague in the Vanishing Cabinet, he turned up jammed in a toilet, and Madam Pomfrey had a devil of a time sorting him out, Hermione was right there with 'do you think we should tell her what happened?'  Fred and George had left the school by then, it wouldn't get them, or her, into any trouble.  When she was in the hospital wing for over a month from the effects of Polyjuice Potion gone wrong, did she tell Madam Pomfrey what happened?  Doubtful, as again, that would have gotten Hermione into trouble.  Madam P would have been able to sort her out in a minute if she had said what she did, but PP was 'illegal' and it would have gotten her into difficulty, suspension/expulsion - who knows.  Given the chance Hermione saves her own neck, which, according to Phineas Nigellus is a Slytherin trait.

I think Hermione should switch houses in the next book.  What fun that would be!! ;-)

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