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

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 154564

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aceworker" <aceworker at ...> 
wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh@> 
wrote:
> > 
> > > 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!
> > 
> 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?

Leah
 I was rather dismayed to find Marietta still scarred in HBP.  I 
like the Percy/Marietta idea (where's Penelope?), but I've wondered 
whether the scarring might play out if Marietta's help is needed in 
some way with the Ravenclaw horcrux.

I also wonder whether the continued scarring may be the result of a 
power in the jinx itself, that it doesn't relinquish its hold until 
the resolution of events that the betrayal has set in train.  
Whatever Marietta's motives, the betrayal of the DA resulted in the 
removal of DD from Hogwarts, which in turn enabled the attack on and 
exiling of Hagrid, the wounding of McGonagall, leaving Snape the 
only Order member at Hogwarts..... Perhaps more importantly for HBP, 
the removal of DD and appointment of Umbridge meant the twins' 
mischief making ran wild.  This included the stuffing of Montague 
into a certain vanishing cabinet; we see the ramifications of that 
in HBP.   I just wonder, if that is the case, how long it could go 
on for.

Leah