Evil Hermione

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 154933

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > It might yes. If the DA were really just a bunch of kids playing
> around trying to look cool like you said in your previous message then
> when Marietta single handedly destroyed it things wouldn't have been
> so disastrous, instead those that organization consisted of people who
> have had more experience and success in dealing with Voldemort than
> anyone else on planet Earth. Marietta got off very lightly indeed
> considering the magnitude of her treachery.  
> 
> Eggplant


There was just one person in the organisation- I think it's rather more 
a group, actually- who had experience and success in dealing with 
Voldemort, as Harry himself points out earlier in the book.  Of course, 
if Harry had been expelled, one might assume that DD would in some way 
have continued to protect him, as he continued to protect Hagrid after 
his expulsion, and to teach him, as in fact he did anyway in HBP.  In 
fact, if we are tracing consequences into the future, removing Harry 
from Hogwarts and placing him, say, in 12 GP might have prevented the 
death of Sirius .  Breaking Harry's wand might well have been serious, 
but how on earth is Marietta to know that? 

However, the question has to be not how culpable was Marietta, but who 
died and made Hermione judge and jury, (if indeed she intended the full 
consequences of the hex)

Leah