"Slytherin" Hermione? (was Re: The Beetle At Bay)

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No: HPFGUIDX 112175

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 members 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?  <snip>  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.  

 
I disagree.  Hermione is not saving solely her own neck; there are other 
necks being saved as well.  In CoS with the PP potion, is there canon for 
her *not* telling Mdm P?  I had the impression she was in the hospital for 
so long because that was how long it took.  I think someone made a comment 
in one of the early books about Mdm P being great and not asking too many questions.  I know she wouldn't want to compromise RW or HP.  But, since 
being a cat wasn't life threatening, why would she tell on her self?  Is 
there any reason for it?  No one else is being hurt by her silence in this 
instance.  

As for Marietta, we are now in a period of pre-war.  Her snitch was not some 
password to a game card club or something.  *It matters,*  and not just for 
 O.W.Ls.  If Hermione would have gone forward to save someone whom did not 
have the same concern for her, she would be putting in danger every other 
member of the D.A.  Is that right, is that the just thing?  They would most 
certainly be expelled, the rest of their lives compromised, and in possible 
danger on the outside from LV and the DE.
 
Hermione is courageous.  Courage isn't necessarily nicey-nice.  To be clever 
and strategic is not necessarily to be cunning.

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