Marietta and the DA.

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 121323


Del wrote:

> There's another reason I hold Hermione primarily responsible along
> with Cho and Marrietta : she was the only one who had imagined that
> there could be a traitor, but she didn't do anything to *prevent* a
> betrayal.
> 
> Harry never imagined that a real betrayal could take place, even
> though he didn't trust Zacharias too much at first. Ron did say that
> someone must have talked when the decree came out a couple of days
> after the meeting, but he was apparently satisfied with Hermione's
> revelation of the hex and never gave it another thought.
> 
> But Hermione *had* given a lot of thought to the possibility of a
> betrayal. That's the very reason she put the hex on the parchment,
> after all. And yet she failed to take any *preventive* measure, not
> even the most basic one : check on people you don't know and keep an
> eye on whoever seems dodgy.
> 
> That's why I hold her partly responsible : because she knew there
> could be a traitor, she had seriously envisioned that possibility, 
but
> she didn't do anything to prevent it.

Now Cory:

I agree that the parchment was an ineffective means of preventing a 
betrayal.  However, I don't see that as a reason to hold Hermione 
more to blame than Harry for not foreseeing Marietta's betrayal.

Here is how I would look at the situation:  none of the kids did 
*anything* that effectively prevented a betrayal.  Hermione at least 
tried; she simply chose a means that was ineffective.  Harry, on the 
other hand, did not even have the foresight to see that it may be an 
issue, and thus did absolutely nothing.  Does that make him *less* to 
blame than Hermione?  Again, I would argue that they are equally to 
blame.

--Cory