[HPforGrownups] Evil Hermione

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 154857

Eggplant:
> I don't think it was wrong, in fact 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.

Magpie:
The operative word here being "imagine" because all this stuff about her 
being in a secret underground organization opposing a tyrant is just that: 
imaginary.  And cooler than being a bunch of kids in school disobeying the 
headmistress at school.

Eggplant:
And I
> would shed no tears for her.  I think Hermione showed enormous
> restraint, more than I have anyway.

Magpie:
At least in your imagination.

Rebecca:
Umbridge to reveal it rather than go to her mother. She didn't reveal it to 
her head of house, either - she went directly to Umbridge.  Not indicative 
of someone who was conflicted or thought they "did the right thing,"

Magpie:
You're not the only person to say that and I don't get it.  Isn't it just 
kind of randomly complicated to bring in Flitwick and minor character's 
parents?  We know what Marietta's mother's position is.  Her choice, 
especially given her mother's job, is either to tell or not--meaning tell 
the Headmistress.  It's pretty straightforward, as JKR tries to keep things, 
I think.  Just as Hermione chooses to either give Harry's Firebolt over for 
testing or not.  However long Marietta waffled and so refrained from 
telling, her decision was always going to be to either keep quiet or tell 
Umbridge.  Telling her mother, for instance, just gets the same result with 
less dramatic effect for the author.

-m