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

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 154563

phoenixgod2000: 
> Are you honestly comparing a pimple curse to a werewolf eating a 
> man's face off? Please. If the pustules were so awful and unfair, 
> wouldn't the kindly *charm* master who happens to be her head of 
> house remove them? or hows about Grampa Dumbledore? Hermione is 
only 
> a fifteen year old, no matter how smart. I doubt there's anything 
> she could do that pair couldn't undo.

zgirnius:
I haven't decided what exactly I think abotu Marietta, Hermione, and 
the Sneak Jinx, but I rather doubt that it could be removed easily by 
either Flitwick or Dumbledore. Because she STILL had the pimples the 
following year. This tells me wizarding world medical prefessionals 
were unable to solve the problem...surely her mother took her to the 
doctor over the summer?

My theory is that Hermione did someting clever involving binding 
magical contracts which made the jinx so irreversible. Signing a 
paper is a common way of sealing a contract, and we know (GoF) that 
in the wizarding world, you do not necessarily have to know what you 
are agreeing to for the contract to be binding.