Marietta and the DA.

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No: HPFGUIDX 121341


> SSSusan wrote:

> In the end it worked out that Harry really enjoyed teaching and 
the DA members learned a lot.  But if Hermione had kept the group 
small at the start 'til they figured out just what they were all 
about, would Marietta ever have found her way there?  Would 
knowledge of the DA ever have been betrayed?  Would DD have had to 
depart?
> 

*****Marcela: Your questions are very reasonable.  I feel that those 
are the same questions that Harry and Co. will ask themselves in 
HBP, if there is a younger version of an Order of the Phoenix or 
something like that... I believe that Jo wrote the Marietta's 
betrayal and the DA's foundation in such ways because she wanted 
them to be a 'lesson' for Harry and his friends' future.  Now Harry 
knows that even if someone in his group is a friend of a friend, 
that doesn't automatically mean it's going to be a friend of his.  
Plus, we cannot forget about the 'plot device' role of Marietta's 
and the need for the story to take out DD from Hogwarts.

Marcela