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

[delwynmarch]

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Eggplant wrote:
"That's wouldn't be enough for me to forgive Marrietta, thinking it
would have a good outcome is not enough, she also needs to be correct.
I think that is highly unlikely, people have been sent to the chair
with less certainty."

Del replies:
I purposely didn't point out that detail :-), because I know we have
different principles concerning this particular point. Being incorrect
doesn't make someone evil in my book. It might have something to do
with my studies. When I was studying Mathematics and Physics, being
incorrect wasn't a sin, while being dishonest was one. If you honestly
applied the right method the right way and yet you came up with the
wrong answer because you had made an accidental mistake somewhere,
then that was no big deal. But if you didn't follow the rules, or if
you dismissed the facts that didn't square with your demonstration,
just so that you could get the right answer, then that was a very big
deal.

Eggplant wrote:
"When I first read the books I wondered if that could be a British 
thing about not asking personal questions."

Del replies:
It could very well be. However my examples were not supposed to be
only about not asking questions : they were supposed to be about
people not talking to each other at all. Apparently, none of the
parents ever said anything to their kids when they mentioned the name
"Neville Longbottom" for example. Maybe that's a British thing too,
but it's so different from what I'm used to that it always makes me
wonder. If it had been in my school, everyone would have known about
Neville's parents 2 weeks after the first holidays, because one kid
would have mentioned his name to his parents, who would have then told
the story of Neville's parents to the kid, who would have spread the
story as soon as he got back to Hogwarts. But I am more than willing
to accept that things don't happen that way in Britain.

Del