Evil Hermione

[juli17 at aol.com]

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> Julie:
> 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:
That decree is about doing underage magic, so we don't know if every
kind of expulsion results in your wand being broken. But if that is
always the consequence, and Marietta knew it, then I agree that would
make her act more serious. Not as serious as deliberately getting 
someone murdered--I still hold murder as a crime well above most
others, including the emotional pain of having to live without doing
magic (you are still alive after all, and living as a Muggle is far
from the worst thing that can happen to a person, I think ;-). 
 
Still, like much of this debate, it's rather a moot point, because
we don't know the exact rules ínvolved in expulsion from school.
Hagrid supposedly tried to kill other students after all, so his
explusion could have required additional punitive measures not
always required when a student is expelled. Additionally, I can't
believe Marietta wanted Cho expelled, whatever the full meaning
of that condition. It seems more likely she didn't expect it to
really happen, or didn't think it out clearly (sort of like 
Sirius sending Snape into the Shrieking Shack).
 
Again, I'm not disagreeing that Marietta's action was wrong, just
that she had truly evil intent in telling on the DA (unlike Peter  
betraying James and Lily to certain death for instance).
 
Julie 
 
 
 
 
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