The Sneak Mark (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[karen_lvssr]

No: HPFGUIDX 112427


Del wrote:
> Second, the Jinx is very much an injustice, for multiple reasons :
> 
> 1. Nobody was warned about it. They agreed not to tell, but there 
> was never any mention of what would happen if they did, and 
> especially there was no mention of something so dreadful. Marrietta
> was not given a choice to avoid the Sneak Mark, because she didn't 
> know she was at risk of getting it. If Hermione had told them what
> could happen, and yet Marrietta had told Umbridge, then I wouldn't
> find it unfair. But Hermione didn't warn them.


Karen L:
I believe that the DA needed to KNOW if there was a "traitor" and 
who they were.  What Hermione did, although extreme in some sense, 
was necessary, because they couldn't have a "Spy" among them or else 
everyone would have been expelled.  If Hermione had told the DA 
members what would happen if they told, one of them may have been 
able to reverse the jinx and then go on with their "sneaky ways". 
Marrietta told for her own personal gains, not to protect anyone, her 
reasons were selfish.  And although having her face disfigured for a 
time is a bit extreme, she does have to explain herself now doesn't 
she?  Maybe that's more of her punishment, to explain how she is a 
person that is not to be trusted.