Marietta and the DA.

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121538


Eggplant wrote: 
"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."

Del replies:
That's not the way I understood you used that word. I thought you
meant it to mean anyone who had negative criticism about Hermione's
hex, which would include me too. Make sure to clearly define the words
you use.
And even in the way you defined it, I still disagree, but that's not
the point.

Eggplant wrote:
"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."

Del replies:
Because you think she does now? She knows about *one* person. What
about the others? Do you make the same mistake as she did to think
that whoever doesn't loudly express their opposition actually agrees?
I wouldn't think things are that clear, oh no!

Eggplant wrote:
"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?"

Del replies:
OK, could you make up your mind? Is the situation in OoP similar to an
open war such as WWII, where everyone is supposed to know they are at
war and to react accordingly? Or is it similar to a cold war where the
war is limited to secret agents, and the general public blissfully
believe they are at peace? It can't be both, unless you accept to
consider, like I do, that there were actually *two* very different
wars going on. Personally, I believe that the Harry/MoM was quite an
open war, but that it didn't concern such people as Marrietta, while
the LV/Order war was a cold one that people such as Marrietta didn't
know almost anything about.

Del