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

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 112714


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

> 
> --- 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


What if you join a group, with some peer pressure, and
promise not to tell about it.  Then you find out it's
a group for murdering people of a different race or
nationality?  Does your promise still make it morally
wrong for you to go to the police?  Now, I am by no
means saying that the DA is equivalent to such a
group.   I'm simply saying that all promises aren't
meant to be kept all the time - it is sometimes more
wrong not to tell than to break the promise.


Rebecca

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