Evil Hermione

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 154839

Eggplant wrote:
>> I think Marietta got off very lightly. Marietta was part of a 
secret underground organization that was trying to oppose a brutal 
tyrant, and she betrayed them. Imagine if she were part of the 
resistance in occupied France and fellow members discovered she had 
betrayed some of her comrades to the Nazis, she'd receive more than 
acne, she'd get a bullet in the brain. And I would shed no tears for 
her. I think Hermione showed enormous restraint, more than I have 
anyway. <<


HunterGreen (jumping in very late on the discussion):
Except that it wasn't a "secret" organization when she joined, now 
was it? Nor was the goal to oppose a tyrant. At the time she joined 
the group, it was neither against any rules, nor was it stated that 
its purpose was to upset Umbridge (though it clearly WOULD upset her, 
that was not the purpose of the group, they didn't sit around 
thinking of ways to get Umbridge out of the school, after all). She 
was taken to a pub to talk about a defense club, the purpose of which 
was to practice spells to pass their OWLs and oppose Voldemort. At 
the end of the LEGAL meeting, she put her name on the paper that 
later would cause the jinx. After that, whether or not she ever went 
to another meeting, if Umbridge found that paper, she was still 
implicated as a member. 

Yes, Marietta by signing the paper, did agree not to tell 'Umbridge 
or anyone else' what they were up to, but she agreed to that when 
there would be no consequences of Umbridge finding out. Then, next 
thing she knows, she's a part of an illegal organization that she 
could be expelled for being a part of. Yes, from Harry's point-of-
view (and from the reader's point-of-view) its a very clear-cut 
situation, that being the the Ministry is being overly-paranoid about 
Dumbledore and short-sighted about Voldemort, but that doesn't mean 
that Marietta agrees, or sees it the same way. From her point-of-
view, she's breaking school rules every time she goes to one of those 
meetings, and she DOESN'T have a family who will be able to 
understand in the least bit why she's doing that (even Ron's mother, 
who is a memeber of more official anti-Voldemort organization, 
doesn't want him in the DA). She most likely thought she was doing 
the right thing. She wasn't trying to be vindictive, or evil, or 
spiteful, she was trying to do what appeared, to her, to be 
the 'right' thing to do in an odd situation. And for that, does she 
deserve to be branded for life? Not really. 


-HunterGreen/Rebecca (hoping she made sense as she is being attacked 
by a headache)