The Sneak Mark (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 112924

David:
> On some of the wider arguments presented in this thread, I 
feel that  whether, as a technical legal matter Hermione had the 
right to 'punish' Marietta is somewhat beside the point.  <

Pippin:
To me, it's exactly the point. Hermione is very sensitive about 
lack of due process, lack of  informed consent, cruel and 
unusual punishments, unrepresentative government and being 
nasty to toerags in general, but it's a case of being able to see 
the speck in your neighbor's eye better than the two by four in 
your own. 

David:
(and I don't  believe difficulty is seriously JKR's criterion for 
rightness)

Pippin:

But that's the proverbial wisdom of Scotland!

'O see you not yon narrow road,
So thick beset with thorns and briars!
That is the path of righteousness,
Though after it but few enquires. '

'And see ye not that braid, braid road,
That lies across that lily leven?
That is the path of wickedness,
Though some call it the road to Heaven '

-Thomas the Rhymer

Pippin