Evil Hermione

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 154976

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.

houyhnhnm:

I agree that getting expelled from Hogwarts is not just nothing.  Not 
quite on a par with getting killed, perhaps, but close to it in the 
WW.  I don't agree with the rest of what you have written.  Yes, 
Marrietta would have known about the breakdown of order within 
Hogwarts.  She would have known about the DEs breaking out of 
Hogwarts.  She probably read _The Quibbler_ article since it seems 
most of the school did.  But she would have *interpreted* all that 
knowledge through the filter of her own preceptions.  She would not 
have had to be deaf, blind, and stupid not to see the world exactly as 
Our Heroes see it.  As for the claim that she betrayed DA to get into 
Umbridge's good book, there is no support for that in canon

Julie:

> 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.

houyhnhnm:

Exactly.  No one is trying to argue that Marietta did the right thing, 
only to imagine how the situation may have looked from her point of 
view.  Seeing another's pov is not the same as taking it.  If Hermione 
had been able to empathize with Marrietta, or with any other student 
who might have had reservations about DA, she might have been able to 
take *effective* steps to forestall a betrayal.  But then, if anyone 
in the Potterverse were capable of empathizing with another's point of 
view, they might stop producing one Dark Lord after another.