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

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 112713


--- totorivers <tombadgerlock at freesurf.fr> wrote:

> Rebecca wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Marietta knew a few things though, or could deduce
> them:
> 
> [1] Umbridge was after Harry's blood, and his
> expulsion.
> 
> [2] Umbridge would not stop just at Harry (Lee
> Jordan in detention, 
> Fred and George stopped from quidditch too)
> 
> [3] Umbridge wanted to sack the teacher and
> Dumbledore
> 
> By siding with Umbridge and the ministry, Marietta
> showed she was 
> *against* those that Umbridge wanted to sack... Even
> though she 
> couldn't know about Dumbledore, it was an *offense*
> against the 
> regular teacher. Plus, she agreed without bothering
> to trade a job of 
> her mother (and we aren't even sure she'll been
> sacked) to the whole 
> life of more than one boy (remember the snapping of
> wand.....). What 
> Marietta did was NOT acceptable, by any measure.


I didn't say it was acceptable.  But, frankly
speaking, we don't know if she was threatened, if her
mother's job was exchanged, or if she secretly dreamed
of marrying Umbridge and starting a Fudge-worshipping
cult.  We know only that she told - nothing else.

But nonetheless, I wasn't arguing the morality of her
actions.  I was simply disputing that "going along
with the crowd" was the negative behavior JKR was
punishing.  It is nearly indisputable, IMO, that it
was in joining the DA that Marietta went along with
the crowd (or Cho) and succumbed to peer pressure
instead of doing what she wanted/thought was right. 
We have no input as to whether Marietta was pressured
to tell or if she truly and independently believed it
was the right thing.


Rebecca

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