Evil Hermione, and Traitor Marietta

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 155027

> > Lanval:
> > Unlike Marietta in OotP, Molly Weasley at the time of PoA has 
neither 
> > met with Dementors, nor seen them in action. 
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> Hundreds of dementors invaded the Quidditch pitch, but only 
> Harry passed out and fell off his broom. Marietta probably went
> past the dementors to get to Hogsmeade without any particular
> problem. Certainly she never saw anyone attacked by them or
> saw them try to perform the kiss on an innocent person. She 
> may not even know what it is. Considering the uneven quality 
> of DADA instruction over the last few years, she may not even 
> have passed her OWL.
> 

True, only Harry passed out, like on the train (though others felt 
the Dementors keenly. Chances are Marietta did). But I thought the 
sudden "eerie silence" that Harry noticed on the field was caused by 
the Dementors. A hundred of them must have had quite an effect on 
the spectators as well, not just on Harry.

The Dementors were outside Hogwarts to catch Sirius Black, and catch 
Sirius Black only. And here they are, a hundred of them, invading 
the field, attacking students. They're not going for a Kiss, but 
they're 'feeding' nonetheless. Lupin makes that clear: "Dumbledore 
won't let them into the school, so their supply of human prey has 
dried up.... I don't think they could resist the large crowd around 
the Quidditch field..." PoA, p.188 Scholastic) So while the average 
student might not know these things, it would still be clear to them 
that these Dementors were NOT doing the ministry's bidding at that 
point.

And there was DD's anger, openly visible to everyone. Blasting the 
foul creatures with "silver stuff". In short: The students witnessed 
rogue Dementors, and what could be done against them. And DD did not 
get in trouble with the ministry (which would surely have been 
mentioned in the Daily Prophet). 


What I'm trying to say is that while Marietta might not have known 
about the Kiss (but with her mother at the ministry, and Sirius 
Black all over the news, I find that unlikely), and certainly never 
witnessed it, she had a pretty good idea of how unreliable Dementors 
can be (DD's warning comes to mind as well), and that the spell to 
repell them is harmless, painless, and perfectly legal. Don't see 
why practising how to conjure a Patronus would cause her such deep 
unease as to do what she did.





> Pippin
> who apologizes profusely and did not mean to imply that fan
> speculations  which excuse Lupin are in any way *intentionally* 
> false. :irons hands and slams ears in oven door also::
>
Lanval:
Eh, no problem at all. And I promise to eat a fat, tasty crow if 
Lupin turns out to be ESE in book 7. :)