Traitors and Deserters.

[eggplant107]

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 "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:

> Deserters are just as bad within a war situation
> as traitors. 

No, actually they are not. But it doesn't matter because  Fred and
George were hardly deserters, they just refused to be chained and
wiped by a very evil person, and they didn't exactly quietly slip away
in the night, they utterly humiliated the enemy and gave the good guys
a new infusion of confidence; nor did they retire from the field of
battle, they publicly offered a discount at their store to anyone
willing to continue the good fight.

It's sort of odd when you think about the mirror image world of Potter
fan sights, not just this one but all of them; Snape is good Harry is
bad, Marietta is good Hermione is bad. I've read far more posts
reacting with moral outrage because Harry raised his voice at his
friends than those who were outraged because Snape murdered
Dumbledore. The good guys do not get one inch of slack but the bad
guys get about a thousand miles of it. 

> the DA was a study group, nothing more. 

A illegal study group that risked death and more than held there own
against twice as many experienced and very evil Death Eaters. That's
some "study group".

> there's no "big picture" to excuse the 
> cruelty of Hermione's actions regarding Marietta. 

In a war there is no place for squeamishness, not if you intend to
win. I hope we see far far far more of that sort of thing in book 7,
especially from Harry. Harry Potter let me introduce you to Dirty Harry.

Eggplant