"Slytherin" Hermione?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 112559

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:

> Well, the problem I have with Hermione's actions is:
> if everything is so important and it's so vitally
> crucial that no one fink or rat out the group, then why on earth
> wouldn't you take more care in selecting who gets invited to join 
> the group in the first place?
> 
> That's where I think Hermione really went wrong; she should have 
only asked a couple of people she trusted to recruit members and 
checked each one over before they were actually invited to any 
meeting.  Then maybe the daughter of a MoM employee might have been 
weeded out at the beginning.
> 
> Magda
>

Valky:
To be fair, I think that it needs to be said here, Hermione was 
trying to be unselfish by deliberatley *not* weeding out people who 
want to learn to defend themselves against the Dark Arts. Do you 
honestly think that Harry or Hermione could or would deny a fellow 
student what they have to offer in a time of crisis on the grounds 
that their parents had some certain job. I can't see it. I can't see 
it being entirely fair either. Sirius was judged this way. It's 
hardly likely that Harry would allow it to happen in his own team. 

Hermione may have looked at all the options and decided the only 
fair way was to use the Proteus Charm, let the only judge of a 
members loyalty be their own heart.