Marietta and the DA.

[eggplant9998]

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"delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:


> I don't particularly like being called
>  a revisionist 

It's a perfectly reputable word; and I wasn't being personal anyway. 
I strongly disagree with you but I respect you, and it's no fun 
debating with somebody that agrees with me. I'm having fun.

I talked about the revisionists, people who think Snape and Marietta 
are good and Harry and Hermione are bad, but I never said you were a 
member of their odd sect. However if you have a guilty 
conscious
..    

> I fail to see what would have been unfair 
> and treacherous in Hermione telling the DA
> that she *had* put a hex on them. 

I don't see anything wrong with it either, not one thing, but there 
is not a doubt in my mind that the revisionists would scream that 
Hermione should have told them before they committed themselves by 
signing so that proves she is evil. Ridiculous yes, but if she had 
done that in the book that's exactly what many on this very list 
would be saying right now.   

In addition, if she had done that Hermione would had difficulty 
knowing who really believed in the DA and who was just going through 
the motions so as not to get pimples. It makes a difference; in the 
one case an individual caught in a sticky situation will use his 
initiative to minimize damage to the DA, in the other case the 
individual will look for loopholes to bring the organization down. 

> A serious overlook not to look for a way
> to *prevent* that betrayal in the first place.

During the entire cold war neither the CIA nor the KGB ever found 
something that would make betrayal imposable, do you really want to 
condemn a 15 year old girl for not finding what they could not?

Eggplant