Hermione and Marietta

[Emily]

No: HPFGUIDX 155011

> > Carol responds:
snip
 IMO, neither
> > Hermione nor Marietta thought ahead. Neither realized the 
potential
> > consequences of her actions. 
snip.
> > 
> > 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.
> >
> Lanval:
> Certainly, but then we should show just as much understanding for 
> another teenager, who is at times self-righteous, too smart for 
her 
> own good, and annoyingly arrogant, but has hardly shown evidence 
of 
> being the budding monster some see in her, a cold-hearted, 
malicious 
> Future Umbridge who'll walk over dead bodies to get her way.

imamommy:
I submit this quote from canon:
Sirius:"Look...A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen."

And he's very right.  Was Marietta or Hermione correct in their 
actions?  That depends on your point of view, as we've seen.  But if 
their were flaws in either of their conduct, let's remember that 
they are 15-year-olds.

I think a lot has been said in defense of both of these ladies, and 
a lot has been said to attack each of them.  Both sides have made 
ample points, but please let's not judge either of them too 
harshly.  

imamommy