Marietta and the DA- Hermione's Mistake

[David & Laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 121716


Eggplant wrote:
> "If  Marietta didn't know that would get her "friends" in trouble 
then
> she shouldn't be at Hogwarts, she should be in a special school for
> the mentally challenged. "

Del replies:
> May I suggest we send, say, Harry, to that school for mentally
> challenged too? After all, he was "stupid" enough to think that the
> two most wanted wizards in Britain could just walk right into the 
most
> secret department of the MoM in the middle of the afternoon on a
> workday...


David:

Hesitating to jump in on this thing you and Egg have going, but here 
goes.

Marietta ratted out her friends, knowing of the decree. She had to 
know they at least faced expulsion, if caught. Maybe she didn't care 
for everyone else, but Cho was supposedly her friend. In my world 
you quit the club or stop going, but you never go to the authorities 
over a club meeting. There is no defense for what Marietta did, so 
yes I find her incredibly stupid.

As to Harry's decision, rash yes, but no where comparable to 
Marietta's transgression. All Harry knew was that he was somehow 
receiving emotions and visions from V'mort. He had seen Bryce die 
and Arthur attacked. He had no reason to doubt these visions.

They tried to check on Sirius. When Kreacher lied, why would he 
doubt Sirius was a prisoner. Harry knows wizards apparate in/out of 
the MOM. He only knows no one besides DD could stop V'mort if he 
went after the 'power' in the MOM with Sirius as a prisoner. I wish 
he would of thought of the mirror, but he was in a panic.