The Sneak Mark (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 112683

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.

Amy Z replied:
>>What makes a person a lawbreaker is not that she acts despite threat
of punishment--it is that she violates the law. Are you saying that
if you break a promise to me, I can't tell everyone you did that
unless I specifically warned you beforehand that that's what I would
do?<<

HunterGreen:
What if the punishment for breaking the promise was cutting off her 
hand? When they signed the document, it was made out to be an honor 
system thing. In fact, the purpose of the document was first said to 
be just a record of who was there, not a contract. Hermione then 
slipped in the part about not telling Umbridge or anyone else about 
the group. 
Of course, the reason she didn't tell anyone about the hex is 
obvious, no one would have signed it if she did. Already everyone was 
hesistant about signing.

Amy Z:
>>Only Marietta is responsible for her having signed the agreement.
If she wasn't willing to be a part of a secret group, she had the
chance to leave instead of signing.<<

HunterGreen:
Well, at the time she signed it wasn't really a "secret group", at 
least not in the same way it was when they started meeting. It went 
from something that was being kept quiet for safety's sake (but was 
still technically not breaking any rules) to being an illegal group 
that she could be expelled for being a member of. Those are two 
*very* different things.