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

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 113157

My opinion:

Hermione knows the story of how and why Lily and James Potter were betrayed 
by a trusted friend who sold them out to Voldemort because of his own 
cowardice (and possibly for his own gain).

She also realizes fully how dangerous Umbridge is to Harry and to Hogwarts 
(remember, she caught onto this almost immediately, during Umbridge's first 
speech).

She realized that Dumbledore's Army was vulnerable to a similar disaster, 
and took steps to insure that if a traitor got into their midst they would 
know a) that it had happened and b) who it was.  Note that if either of 
these facts had been known to the original Order of the Phoenix, several 
lives, including those of Harry's parents, might have been saved.

It is quite true that a little more security at the beginning might have 
been good, but on the other hand, the only way to do that is to require that 
each new member is vouched for by an old member -- which wouldn't have kept 
out Marietta.


Janet Anderson

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