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

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"delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:



> motives, reasons, background *do* matter 
> a great deal. Judging people *only* on 
> their actions is running a high risk of
> getting the whole situation completely wrong. 

Motives matter only insofar as they change your appreciation of the 
act itself. If you ask me to judge someone who does something that I 
at first think is evil but on finding out more it turns out the act 
was not evil at all then obviously my viewpoint of the person 
changes radically. But if you say yes the act was bad but he only 
did it because he had a bad childhood or had bad genes or had a bad 
hair day
. Well, it could all be true but I just don't care,
the man is still a monster 

In my example, a man chasing me with a bloody ax, I have enough 
information to make a moral judgment, the man is a monster. In your 
example, one unknown man chasing another unknown man I don't know 
enough to judge anything because I don't have a clear idea of
what is going on.
  
In Marietta's case motives would matter to me only if due to some 
astounding plot twist she was the only one who believed (and 
believed correctly, that's very important!) that telling Umbridge 
about the DA would lead to a fantastically beneficial future good of 
some sort and not telling her would lead to disaster. Except for 
that astronomically unlikely possibility I don't care what the 
reasons for her betrayal were because I have enough information to 
conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that she is scum.   

> I was asking if we know from canon 
> that Snape *did* tell the WW about 
> what he knows.

To my knowledge it doesn't says so explicably in the 
books but no novelist tells her readers that if 
you can't find a line of dialog in my book then the 
character never said the words in his entire life. 
We know Snape told Fudge, it is consistent with everything we 
know about the man to assume he told others too, in fact it is 
inconceivable he did not.

Eggplant