The Sneak Mark (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 112710

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> 
> HunterGreen:
> It didn't matter. By that point her name was already on the list. 
> Even if she never went to another meeting, if the list was found, 
she would still be considered a member. I don't know why she kept 
going to meetings, perhaps she's weak-willed or something, but that 
doesn't excuse Hermione for not warning anyone about the hex.


Tonks here:

Sometimes when someone goes against a contract and against what they 
promised there are consequences that are not know at the time. So it 
is here as well.  If you made a promise not to tell anyone, then you 
should NOT tell anyone.  There is no excuse for what Marietta did, 
just as there is no excuse for what Wormtail did.  There is such a 
thing as duty and honor, and I think that is what is being taught 
here.  Marietta had a choice every step of the way.  No one put a 
wand to her head and said "sign".  She did not make good choices.  
She made what seemed like small choices at the time and got in 
deeper and deeper, apparently all the while not wanting to do what 
she was doing. She is responsible for her actions
 all of them.  She 
is not doomed to hell for them, we can forgive her, but she has to 
pay the consequences all the same.  Blaming Hermione is not going to 
get Marietta off!!  Hermione is not the bad guy here, Marietta is.  
She may be weak willed and we can have pity on her, but there is a 
very fine line between what she did and what Wormtail did, and we 
need to remember and learn from that.

Tonks_op