Marietta and the DA.

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 121289


Eggplant:
 
> > 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. 

Ravenclaw001:

> 
> 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.  
> 

Now Cory:

I agree that *somebody* should have picked up on Marietta's lack of 
enthusiasm for the group.  Here's a question though: why is it 
automatically Hermione's responsibility to do so (and thus, 
Hermione's fault that nobody caught on)?

Cho knew Marietta best, and was thus in the best position to know 
what she was thinking; thus I would say Cho deserves some blame for 
not predicting Marietta's actions.  Beyond that though, what is the 
basis for holding Hermione responsible?  Sure, she could have picked 
up on the fact that Marietta didn't want to be there, but so could 
Harry, Ron, or anybody else in the group.

The only basis for holding Hermione responsible is that it was her 
idea to form the DA in the first place.  That reasoning just doesn't 
hold any water with me, though -- the fact that the group was her 
idea should not make her responsible for the actions of all of its 
members.

--Cory