Evil Hermione, and Traitor Marietta

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No: HPFGUIDX 154988

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> Pippin:
> Of course they can! Marietta can rationalize her involvement in the
group
> and her agreement not to tell anyone with reason number one, until 
> they start learning how to fight dementors.
> 
> Then her rationalization no longer works. Learning to fight dementors
> is not part of the OWL exam by any stretch of the imagination. Nor,
> from Marietta's point of view, can it be part of an anti-Voldemort 
> effort, since the dementors are supposed to be anti-Voldemort
themselves.

Gerry
Could you give me the canon for that please? The Patronus charm is not
part of the OWLS examination, but logically it is part of the NEWT. We
don't have any evidence that all dementors are in the employement of
the MoM. They are definitely dark creatures so I don't see any reason
that this would be an issue for Marietta. 


Pippin
> 
> At that point Marietta would have to choose between her own beliefs 
> and Cho's friendship. She tried, IMO, to get out of the choice by 
> going to Umbridge.

Gerry
I'm not sure what you mean by this. By going to Umbridge she made a
choice, the choice to get her best friend into big trouble. 
> 
Pippin
> That Marietta gave away where the meeting was to be held instead 
> of who was involved shows that she was conflicted, I think.  
> Umbridge wouldn't have been able to expel
> anybody with that information alone. But she would have been able
> to stop the meetings.

Gerry
Giving away where and when the meeting would be held is the same as
giving away who was there. If Dobby had not come, Umbridge and co
would have bursted in on everybody except Marietta, caught them all
red handed and that would be it. No, I don't see any conflict there.

Gerry