Evil Marietta (was: Evil Hermione)

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"juli17ptf" <juli17 at ...> wrote:

> I'm not making light of it, just pointing
> out the consequences Marietta could have foreseen.

Marietta could not have known the exact consequences of her betrayal
but she must or certainly should have known that aligning herself with
a very evil woman and against a very good man would lead to something
bad, in this case it was the death  Serious Black.
 
> Of course getting expelled is not a good thing. 
> But I also don't think it's *destroying* a life. 

When Harry was caught breaking not the law but just a school rule he
was not threatened with expulsion but with a Unforgivable Curse, when
Fred and George broke school rules they were threatened with chains
and flogging with whips; and this threatening was done by someone why
tried to murder a boy in a exceptionally horrible way.

> the only one really likely to be expelled was Harry

"It looks like Hogwarts will soon be a Weasley free environment."

> She's telling an aknowledged authority
> figure about an illegal club

The Nazis were acknowledged authority figures and the Resistance in
France was illegal. Far more evil has been caused by obeying authority
figures than disobeying them.

> it would have been *much* wiser of Hermione 
> to let everyone know what would happen to
> them if they betrayed the DA  before they
> signed the document. 

So you think it's wise not to set a trap for a spy; you'd last about 2
minutes in the French Resistance.
  
> Giving out that information would have 
> strongly discouraged anyone from such betrayal

Marietta already knew too much, she could have just refused to sign
and then gone straight to Umbridge and nobody would know who the
traitor was. Besides the curse only covered telling someone what they
were doing and there are other means of betrayal.  

"littleleahstill" <littleleah at ...> wrote: 

> There was just one person in the organisation
[..] who had experience and success in dealing with Voldemort, as
Harry himself points out earlier in the book.  

It's true that Harry is the only one who faced Voldemort 4 times (or
even once) and lived to tell the tale, but Ron Hermione Ginny Neville
and Luna have all shown exceptional bravery; I would certainly rather
have one of them watching my back than most adults, even most members
of the Order of the Phoenix, Hagrid, Lupin, Mad Eye, and maybe Tonks
are the only ones I really trust. 

Eggplant