[HPforGrownups] Re: The Sneak Mark (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 112699


--- Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer" 
> <red_light_runner08 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > But once it was made an illegal group she could
> have easily gone 
> and told them she wanted to back out (she would have
> had a perfectly 
> good reason) or she could have asked Cho to do it.
> Just by signing 
> she wasn't bound to HAVE to continue with it! She
> didn't! All the 
> books are about choices Marrietta made hers and set
> off a bad chain 
> of events because of it. I agree that she couldn't
> have really known 
> > what would happen but that doesn't excuse her
> actions. > 
> > "Jennifer"
> 
> 
> Tonks here:
> 
> I agree that this is another example of choice. And
> since these 
> are "Children's" books, this story line is there for
> a reason. It 
> shows children what can happen if you don't stop and
> think first 
> before you act. Having her facial condition for
> about 8 weeks, is a 
> minor thing for an adult(I know some disagree on
> this), but a major 
> thing to a kid. I think JKR uses this as another
> teaching session on 
> choice. It also shows what can happen if you go
> along with the 
> crowd, when you don't really think that you should.
> 
> Tonks_op


We have no indication that "facial condition" will
ever clear up.  We can either surmise that it was a
brilliant bit of Magic by Hermione, or that the school
Nurse deliberately allowed the condition to remain
(with the poor student having no memory of why she has
it).

And, for the record, Marietta was "going along with
the crowd" when she didn't think she should when she
joined the D.A.  We really don't know her thoughts
when she told.


Rebecca

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