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

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No: HPFGUIDX 154551

> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Marietta did not betray the DAs for personal gain.

Alla:

Do we know that?

Houyhnhm:
  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.

Alla:

She may have been scared, yes, just as Peter may have been when 
Voldemort approached him ( if we believe Peter).

But no matter what her motivations were, the end result for DA army, 
whom I see as fighters against Ubridge oppressive regime would have 
been all the same, they all would have been expelled but for 
Kingsley quick thinking.

I am sure Marietta had her reasons, does it make her action better?

Houyhnhm:
  I 
> don't see Marietta as a despicable person at all.

Alla:

Neither do I, I see her ACTION as despicable.

Houyhhmmm:
  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.

Alla:

For life - no, but for some time - to me she absolutely did.

JMO,

Alla.