"Slytherin" Hermione?

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 112515

Valky wrote:
>>1 Marietta Joined Dumbledores Army at the behest of her good friend
Cho Chang. (No pushing from Hermione)<<

HunterGreen: (hello Valky!)
I agree with you on that point, and I've mentioned in a past thread 
on this topic that Cho is at extreme fault for dragging Marietta in 
in the first place. She should have known better than to put one of 
her friends in that position.

Valky:
>>2 Voldemort is alive and kicking and mortally dangerous to every
last inhabitant of the Wizard World. Someones gotta fight him!
Dumbledores Army is doing the WW a service beyond anything else..<<

HunterGreen:
How so? Most of the students are not personal targets of Voldemort, 
and are unlikely to encounter him unless they join the Order or 
become aurors, and in either case they'd be around older wizards who 
can train them. I know its always *possible* that one of them will 
encounter Voldemort or a DE, but how likely is it to happen that 
year? (if the DA had waited to be an allowed group, it would have 
only needed to wait a year). The only members of the group who end up 
using the spells are the ones that *willingly* go with 
Harry/Ron/Hermione *because* they know the spells. It almost became a 
danger more than anything else, because it gave them all a false 
sense of capability against DE's (and its a miracle none of them 
weren't killed in the DoM battle).

Valky:
>>3 Hermione was aware that she was dealing with the most sinister,
vile authoritative figures ever to walk Hogwarts in her few years
there. DA is too important to be left to chance under Umbridges
regime. Hermione chooses an effective and powerful protection for
the group.<<

HunterGreen:
But she doesn't even TELL the group this! Marietta signs the form 
before the group is even against the rules, and at no time was it 
mentioned that telling Umbridge would enable a jinx across her face. 
Perhaps if she'd known that she wouldn't have told. 
On top of that, the DA wasn't *so* important that it was worth 
risking all of them getting expelled (although, IMO, it would have 
worked MORE against Umbridge if they all had been expelled...can you 
imagine the parental backlash?). It wasn't even that much of a fight 
against Umbridge, not in the way that the fireworks and the swamp 
destabiltized things.