Hermione and Marietta

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154973

Renee:
> No, you're not the only one. I mentioned it in a previous post on the
> subject, and I distinctly remember one or two others saying the same.
> Perhaps Hemione is just waiting for Marietta to acknowledge her fault.
> That's why I see no reason to condemn Hermione (yet) for not
removing it. 

Carol responds:
How is Marietta supposed to apologize for a "crime" she doesn't
remember, and which, to her knowledge, had no consequences other than
the temporary and voluntary removal of the headmaster? And doesn't
Hermione know that Marietta was Obliviated? If she's waiting for an
apology, she's going to wait a long time. And we have no indication
whatever that she regrets having hexed the parchment. IMO, neither
Hermione nor Marietta thought ahead. Neither realized the potential
consequences of her actions. But Hermione can now see the consequences
of her action and Marietta can't because there are none and she
doesn't know what she did. All she knows is that she's (apparently)
scarred for life, and only one friend is loyal enough to stand by her,
right or wrong, scarred or unscarred.

My guess is that Hermione not only feels no remorse but never thought
to figure out a counterjinx, which in any case would probably just
undo the jinx on the parchment.

Carol, who hopes that some of the posters on this list would feel more
compassion for a real-life teenager who makes a big mistake than they
apparently do for the imaginary teenagers in the HP books. Let him who
is without sin cast the first stone.