Being Good and Evil ( Draco and a bit of Ron)/

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 154751

Alla:
> Hermione  marked a traitor, Umbridge hurt an innocent. Lots of 
> difference to  me.
> 
> Julie:
> Hermione marked a 15 YEAR OLD girl. Let's try not to forget that.
> She's still a child. The more this incident gets discussed the more
> I'm bothered by it. To leave Marietta with purple pustules all 
over  her
> face for months on end, perhaps forever (assuming Hermione has
> no intention of removing them, which she hasn't shown to date), is
> not a nice thing, certainly not the act of a truly "good" person. I
> mean, would you do that, even if a girl betrayed your secret and
> almost got you expelled? And would you leave her that way for
> months, passing her in the hallway and seeing her disfiguring
> purple pustules--all the while knowing she doesn't even remember
> how or why it was done!--and feel not the slightest twinge of
> guilt or the impulse to remove the curse, thinking perhaps she's
> suffered enough? Or would you be like Hermione and not give it a
> second thought when passing her, feeling perhaps nothing but 
> satisfaction at her mortification and pain (aren't pustules open  
sores?)

Alla:

Just wanted to briefly comment that I have not noticed that being 
fifteen diminishes the seriousness of other characters actions in 
Potterverse. Draco at sixteen planns to do Dumbledore assasination.

Harry at fifteen has the burden of saving the world. At fifteen 
those kids play in the adults league and have to do something that 
some adults in RL will never get the chance to do.

So, NO the fact that Marietta is fifteen does not help her much in 
my eyes, I mean, I will not put her in the "terrible person" 
forever, but I won't cut her slack only because of her age.

BUT I wanted to clarify, while I perfectly UNDERSTAND what Hermione 
did and do not begrudge her trying to protect the illegal group from 
the traitor , I do not think that she employed the perfect strategy 
either.

She should have talked and explained to them more before making them 
signt he parchment AND while I stand by that Marietta deserved what 
she got, I also think that leaving it for that long is cruel.

But who says that Hermione can remove the hex, maybe it will 
dissappear when  the concequences of Marietta's actions will be 
healed?

Alla,

who does not dispute that Hermione can be ruthless, but who does not 
have much problem with it because IMO her heart is in the right 
place.