Being Good and Evil (was:Re: Harry's arrogance (was Evil Snape)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 154546

Alla:
 
> No, absolutely not. I do NOT judge Marietta based on 
> how much I dislike her, I judge her based on her ACTION, 
> that is why it matters to me  very much what kind of 
> person receives the punishment.

> I would not as far as to say that Marietta is a completely 
> horrible person, she is too minor character for that, but 
> I absolutely think that her action is horrible. THUS because 
> and ONLY because her action is horrible I think that she 
> deserved everything she got.


houyhnhnm:

Marietta did not betray the DAs for personal gain.  She 
was scared.  She was deceiving her mother!  She was going 
against what she had been taught all her life to believe 
was right--the authority of the Ministry of Magic.  I 
don't see Marietta as a despicable person at all.  She 
may have lacked the maturity to make her own decisions 
about right and wrong.  She may have lacked the moral 
imagination to comprehend that there was a higher cause 
to be served than obeying the Ministry and her mother. 
She may, in fact, have been a moral simpleton, incapable 
of seeing beyond her own selfish fear of getting in trouble. 
But she didn't *deserve* to be scarred for life.