Marietta and Hermione (was JKR's Messages ) (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 120931


Charme wrote:
" There's an old phrase which may suit here: "perception is 9/10th of
the law." Interpretation of posts like these are individual to the
reader, and what you mean to say and what actually comes through
*about you* via your writing can be 2 entirely different things."

Del replies:
I completely agree, but accusing me of having said something I never
even came close of saying is going way beyond interpretation.
Interpretation is extrapolation based on the facts, it's not invention
of new facts.

Charme wrote:
"is ignorance of the situation or outright denial the responsibility
of the government or of the individual?  (I don't know - I can see it
both ways and make it personal responsibility in RL to inform myself
as much as possible, so I wouldn't limit myself to just the Prophet if
I was a wizard :))"

Del replies:
I kind of agree, but I doubt any other newspaper or magazine reported
anything better.
We don't know what the Quibbler (a magazine to read with a very high
dose of skepticism apparently) said about the war that DD was warning
about. But even if it talked about it, it would most probably have
been coated with such ridiculous accusations (like Fudge eating
goblins, though I must admit I still wonder if maybe it couldn't be
true...) that the real info would have been pretty much impossible to
discern. 
Witch Weekly doesn't seem to be the kind of magazine that concerns
itself with political issues, and even if it does, I would think it
would very obediently repeat the official version of things. And so
would most probably most of the other publications, if there are any.
The Order did seem to imply that the MoM had a very tight control on
the press. I guess this also includes the wireless network.
So I agree that ideally people could have tried to find other sources
of information, but I don't think they could have found anything of
worth, short of writing to Harry and DD straight. And honestly, how
many would even think of writing to someone who makes such weird
claims as Harry and DD were making (except to insult them of course)?

Charme wrote:
" Remember, Harry  and DD were portrayed as off their rockers,
ridiculed, etc in The Daily Prophet. In DD's case, he is a wizard who
was lauded for the defeat of a dark wizard some years back and was
stripped of some of his *position* in the community."

Del replies:
Hum, some years ago was about 50 years (I'm assuming you're talking
about Grindelwald?). That's a *long* while. No hero of the past is
insured against falling from their pedestal. To me as I grew up,
Petain was always associated with weakness and betrayal (he was the
general who ruled France under the German authority during WWII), and
I was amazed to learn that he had been one of the major heroes of WWI
in France. He was held by the French in extremely high esteem for more
than 20 years, which is actually why people followed his lead when he
suggested submitting to the Germans. So there's no saying that DD
couldn't have fallen off his rocker for good, no matter how great he
had been in the past.

Charme wrote:
"It'd make me wonder what the hell was going on, especially if I had a
kid at Hogwarts who informed me at end of term a young man had been
killed by LV's rebirth at the end of the Tri Wizard Tournament as DD
had told the students. "

Del replies:
As I see it, the problem is that DD was alone in proclaiming that LV
had killed Cedric, and he was faced with the entire government and
press who all had another apparently-acceptable explanation for what
happened to Cedric (Umbridge called it an accident, but I must admit
I'd love to see how they explained being killed by *nothing* -not an
AK obviously- to be an accident! Maybe they said it was a cardiac
arrest, or an aneurism, or something?). As I already said in another
post, if a kid proclaimed that another kid had been killed by the
aliens (or by Hitler ressucitated for that matter), I would be
suspicious of the kid, not of the aliens or Hitler.
Moreover, there's the simple matter that the TWT is well-known for
being mortally dangerous. No matter what the Headmasters said at the
beginning of the year about ensuring higher levels of security, I'm
sure that in the mind of people, TWT still equals with deaths of
students. Who knows, maybe some even suggested that DD had dragged LV
into the story just because he couldn't face his own responsibility in
Cedric's death?

Del