Marietta and the DA- Hermione's Mistake

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 121709


pippin_999 wrote:

> 
> > There are supposed to be around a 
> > thousand students at Hogwarts, and 
> > only 28 or so were in the DA. Are 
> > you saying everyone else was a coward or an Umbridge toady?

Eggplant wrote:

> Yes, if they knew about the meeting and refused to come.
> 

Now Cory:

I think that's a bit simplistic, don't you?  Remember, at its 
inception, the DA really was little more than a study group -- a 
group to allow people who wanted to study practical DADA to do so.  

Are you seriously suggesting that it is unfathomable to you that a 
student, although neither a coward nor an Umbridge toady, might 
choose not to join a DADA practice group?  Sure, some people probably 
didn't go because they were afraid of Umbridge, but don't you think 
it's possible that a lot of the school didn't go because they're just 
not that interested in studying DADA?

--Cory