Evil Hermione

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No: HPFGUIDX 154963

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "juli17ptf" <juli17 at ...> wrote:
>
> Julie now:
> I'm not making light of it, just pointing out the consequences Marietta 
> could have foreseen. Of course getting expelled is not a good thing. 
> But I also don't think it's *destroying* a life. Surely any students 
> expelled could go to another school, or continue their education at 
> home. (And the only one really likely to be expelled was Harry). 

Gerry
In several posts it is already pointed out that expulsion is nothing
like that: 

"The severity of this breach of the Decree for the Reasonable
Restriction of Underage Sorcery has resulted in your expulsion from
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. ministry representatives
will be calling at your place of residence shortly to destroy your
wand." OoP p. 30 Bloomsbury Hardcover edition

>From Hagrid we know that destroying the wand of the expelled person is
standard procedure. Somebody expelled from Hogwarts may not do magic,
is doomed to live as a squib. Yes I'd call that destroying of a
person's future. And Marietta knew this, because she knew decree 24.
This decree counted for all the DA students, including her best
friend. I'd call that very serieus and criminal behaviour indeed.

Julie
> far, far cry from the kind of betrayal that Peter was guilty of, that 
> which leads to torture and death. 

Gerry
How would you classify having magic and not being able to perform it?
Torturous would be a good word for it. 

> Julie
> I also don't understand at all how it could be criminal. She's telling 
> an aknowledged authority figure about an illegal club at the school. 
> Can you explain what you mean by criminal?

Gerry
Destroying people's future. She knew that even the teachers despised
Umbridge and her authority. She knew about the outbreak of Azkaban and
Harry's interview. She knew there was a lot more going on than
Umbridge wanted them to know. She had to have been deaf, blind and
stupid not to recognize that what was happening in school was not in
their best interests at all. Yet she choose to ignore all that to get
into Umbridge's good book.
>
Gerry
> I don't think anyone has denied that Marietta was wrong to betray the 
> DA, or that she deserved some kind of punishment. I just think Hermione 
> went too far. It would have been sufficient to mark Marietta for a set 
> period of time.

Gerry
I agree with that. I year would have been enough. But I also like that
other suggestion, I don't know from who, that what was needed for this
kind of hex was acknowleging how wrong she was and apologizing for it.

Gerry