Marietta's Brand and some related thoughts (Was Being Good and Evil)

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No: HPFGUIDX 154561

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
DA Jones

A bit of a ramble, but this made me think. So Sorry!

Why does Marietta still have her "mark in book 6". Maybe so in book 7
Cho has to take her to curse breaker Bill Weasley to get it removed. 
Maybe for some reason Cho and Marietta are at the wedding and Bill
removes it then. And Percy is there. Maybe it is all JKR's set-up to
get Percy and Marietta together. What a couple! :-). I'll think I'll
start that ship!

We do know one thing about her char. Marietta stands by her friend.
At least initially JKR has her stand by and try to help a distraught
friend. She attends something she is entirely opposed to for one and
only one reason: Cho. Cho certainly seems to be abandoned by almost
all of her friends. In GOF she travels in packs in HBP she certainly
is described as being alone a lot more often (in-part in order to talk
to Harry). The only other apparent friend post GOF of Cho is Michael
Corner who actually picks a fight and breaks up's with Ginny (over
Quidditch) to defend and date Cho. Marietta's decision to turn in the
DA is a moral decision. Basically she agreed with her mother that what
Harry was doing was wrong. Appar she did not beleive that Voldermort
was back. 

Based on her belief system as portrayed it actually was the right
decision. If you look at DD maxim to do the hard and right instead of
the easy in, you can see that for a teenager it is often much harder 
to betray her friends then to listen to parents. Even if the parents
are right. 

Here in order to do the right thing she betrays her friends, even Cho.
Esp.Cho because by doing so she destroys Cho chance for a relationship
with Harry. (So she does what she thinks is the Hard and right.) 

You have to base your decidion to do the hard and right on the info
you have. If your info is wrong, even the right decision can be wrong.
To use a real world example Iraq. Many Americans and Some Brits
thought going into Iraq was right and it was the hard and right thing
to do when we thought they had weapons of mass destruction. Know we
know they didn;t so many think it was the wrong decision. Was the
decision wrong? In hindsight yes, but not based on the info we had
then. JKR has Marietta base her decision in a similar way on the wrong
info.     

Marietta as JKR wrote her wasn't evil just misinformed. Cho said that
Marietta was a good person and if she is present at all in book 7 tht
she will prob be shown to be such a person. There is a quote somewhere
by JKR that the Ravenclaws will have their day. This didn't happen in
book 6 is it going to happen in book 7?