Marietta and the DA.

[ravenclaw001]

No: HPFGUIDX 121288


> "ravenclaw001" <technomad at i...> wrote:
> 
> > Firstly---having her [Marietta] join 
> > at all was an example of Hermione's
> > biggest weakness. 
> 
> It's easy to say that now, but before the very end if you had asked 
> me to pick a possible traitor in the DA Marietta would not have 
been 
> my first guess, she wouldn't have even made my top 5. Did you do 
> better? And anyway, the fact that she was there was Cho's fault not 
> Hermione's. 

I agree---Cho should have known better.  I'd expect more smarts from 
a Ravenclaw.  Still and all, Hermione probably should have sussed out 
her lack of enthusiasm and gently eased her out of the Hog's Head.  

"Oh, Marietta---didja know that there's a big Free Chocolate deal 
down at Honeyduke's?"  *Hermione gets trampled in the stampede as all 
the girls present rush out the door*  "Well, that worked---a little 
_too_ well!"

> 
> > Whether it's trying to free house-elves
> 
> At times she may be a bit overly enthusiastic about house elves but 
> that's why I love her, and she's doing the right thing. Outside of 
> Harry she is my favorite character.

I love her too---if I had a little girl like her I'd be firmly 
wrapped around her little finger.  That said, I'm not blind to her 
faults, and she does rather lack people skills and tact sometimes.

> 
> > or riling the centaurs
> 
> If Hermione hadn't made the "mistake" of "riling the centaurs" 
Harry 
> would be dead, or worse.

I'm not talking about just going into the FF.  Once Dolores was busy 
digging her grave with her own big flapping mouth, the smartest thing 
Our Miss Granger could have done was STFU and stay that way.  She 
nearly got herself and Harry into the same sort of trouble DU got 
into by letting the centaurs know that she had been trying to use 
them, and if Grawp hadn't come over the hill like the cavalry she'd 
have been in rather the same sort of sticky predicament that DU was.  


> 
> Eggplant

Eric Oppen---who wants to know:  When Firenze is teaching his 
Divination classes, is he the Centaur of Attention?