[HPforGrownups] Re: Marietta and the DA- Hermione's Mistake

[ReturnOfTheMutt at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 122193

 
In a message dated 1/11/2005 3:08:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
bboyminn at yahoo.com writes:

Also, an  indication that Marietta had a strong desire to leave but
couldn't bring  herself to act independant of the group. 

What people CAN do, and what  people are LIKELY to do are often very
very different. Through the whole  thing, Marietta is clearly doing
something she doesn't want to do. She is  yielding to pressure from
Cho, and pressure from the  group.



When I was 14 I was hanging out with two of my friends.  We were  bored.  We 
lived in the country and there's nothing to do.  Like  idiots, we decided to 
take my mom's car and drive into town (they were 13 and  14).  It was a 
terrible idea.  We all thought so, but nobody said  anything against it because the 
other two were doing it.  Sure, there was  the option of saying 'Hey, let's not 
do this," and if somebody else had said it  each of us would have agreed.  
Nobody wanted to be the one to actually  speak up, so we all went along with it 
even though we didn't really  want to.    There's a huge difference between an 
option being  avaliable and an option actually being presented to you.  
 
If somebody had said "If you don't want to join, go now," I bet a  couple of 
people other than Marietta would have gone as well.  


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