"Slytherin" Hermione?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112475

> DuffyPoo:
> That makes Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall two very nasty 
> pieces of work, IMO.  Much like DD if he knew Sirius was innocent 
> but left him to rot in Azkaban anyway.  

 totorivers said:
"The hex is just something written on her face, and it is a meek 
punishment for someone that got the headmaster thrown out: By not 
healing her, it could be a statement that students can *not* attack 
teachers. And in that case they are justified."

Del replies :
>>Where *ever* did you read that Marrietta attacked DD ??? Her action
had *nothing* to do with DD !! She told on the DA for reasons that we
know nothing about, but it's quite obvious that her intention was
NEVER to get DD thrown out !! Just like Harry never intended to get
Sirius killed when he went to the MoM.<<

DuffyPoo:
Thank you, Del, for replying much quicker than I could.  In fact, the other kids in the DA need never have been expelled.  Umbridge was after HP from the get-go in OotP.  She wanted *him* out of the picture.  DD sacrificed himself to keep HP in school - read 'safe.'  Marietta was not after getting DD removed from the school.  As it was, although Umbridge knew all the names of the DA members, no one else was punished at all.  She got what she wanted, more so in fact, when DD left the school.   I just have to add, that regardless of 'why' Marietta told on the DA, the hex mark being left on her, if it could have been easily removed, by either a teacher or Madam Pomfrey, makes them nasty, nasty people, IMO.  I don't believe Snape is justified in his treatment of HP or NL, and I can't believe Pomfrey/McGonagall is justified in not unjinxing Marietta if they had the ability to do so, just to 'prove' a point.  One thing we don't know is if Hermione found this jinx in a book and used it, or if she combined some stuff she read and made up her own jinx, in which case, only Hermione would be able to tell them what had caused the hex.

 totorivers said:
"They are people that
*live* for the ambition, and are not ambitious for their lives. Their
fear have got the better of them and, for me, another trait of
Slytherin house is cowardness. It is quite explicit with Lucious
Malfoy, whose ambition brings him to a life time of kissing an half
blood robes because he is afraid of change and of living."

DuffyPoo:
I don't see Slytherins as being cowards at all.  Oh, I suppose some of them are - I don't think Draco is all that brave or he wouldn't need bodyguards.  Phineas said "We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid.  For instance,. given the choice, we will always choose to save own necks."  As someone said yesterday (sorry, I don't remember who) 'A dead hero is no use to anyone.'

Do you really believe Lucius Malfoy is a coward? (I love your spelling of Lucius, btw, as I think Jason Isaacs as LM is!)  LM's ambition is for power, IMO.  I really don't know if he knew, before the end of OotP, that TR/LV is half-blood.  Bella certainly didn't and I can't see LM doing all that he has none in the name of blood-purity for someone who is not a pure-blood himself. Bella either.  That aside, as I said, I think LM is mostly after power.  He is probably well aware that the Potter kid is the one who is supposed to be LV's undoing, and is, IMO, quite secretly hoping the kid will succeed and leave him free to take LV's place.  There will always be evil in the world, even if/when HP defeats LV, and I'm quite certain LM is secretly building his own empire. I'm sure there are several DE friends of LM who are sick to death of being kicked around by LV - Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, Rookwood, Avery, and Wormtail will most definitely attach himself to "the biggest bully in the playground."  How many other of the pure-blood DEs will be happy to stick around LV when they learn the truth of his ancestry?  LM is in the perfect position to act based on what he knows.  Right now, Bella thinks HP is lying about LV's heritage.  Is she going to stick by him if LM can prove it to her that LV is a half-blood; the son of a Muggle, the very worst kind of Half-blood?  Of course, the whole problem with this theory is, at the moment, LM is in no position to act as he's resting on his backside in Azkaban.  I don't, however, think they will be there for long, and as the Dementors have left the building, there is no fear of any of the inmates losing their powers.

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