Marietta and the DA.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 121461



> Eggplant:
> >> she put a hex on the parchment which
> >> if nothing else that at least ensured
> >> nobody could betray them twice."
Del: 
> >  Betray them *twice* ?? 
Eggplant:
> John Walker and Aldrich Ames were intelligence agents 
> who betrayed their organizations HUNDREDS of times for 
> over 20 years. Hermione ensured that nothing like that
> could happen to them. Yes one betrayal is still far 
> too many but it's better than nothing.

Pippin:
Eggplant, I think you have something there. Hermione must have 
been focusing  on the danger that someone had *already* told 
DU about the meeting.  No doubt she hoped any mole would be 
revealed in a flourish of purple pustules as soon as they signed 
the parchment.  

Very dramatic -- but when it didn't happen, she may have felt a 
little ashamed of herself for suspecting them and that's why she 
didn't tell anyone what she'd done. After all, why not tell Harry and 
Ron about the hex immediately...she didn't think they were 
potential traitors, did she?

You've also given me some insight into JKR's plotting. This 
device ensures we know that Marietta wasn't reporting to 
Umbridge all along.

I think though, that considering Marietta as a sneak misreads 
her character (as JKR expects us to.) Cho has pretty good taste 
in friends otherwise and she says Marietta is a lovely person, so 
she can't have been a sneak all along. I think Marietta shows us 
the limitations of  trying to be  nice to everyone as opposed to 
deciding what's right. Marietta went to the meetings to appease 
Cho, tried to leak some information to appease her mother, and 
then tried to squeal on the DA to appease Umbridge. Or that's 
how I see it.

Pippin