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

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 154593

> > > Betsy Hp:
> > <SNIP>
> > > Look, two characters get branded in OotP: Marietta and Harry.  
> > > We like Harry so it's Bad that he was branded.  We don't like 
> > > Marietta so it's Good that she was branded.  And that sort of 
> > > moralizing is ripe for abuse.  Because you're not judging 
> > > someone by their actions or a set of rules.  You're judging 
> > > them by how much you like them, and with your own sense 
> > > of righteousness.
> > 
> 
> Lanval: <SNIP>
> Keep in mind that she was well aware of another group of friends, 
> who paid dearly for having a traitor in their midst and not 
> realizing it. 
> 
> So here she is, trying to come up with a plan. The DA MUST be kept 
> secret.<SNIP>
> 
> That having been said, it *was* cruel to let the effects of the 
> hex linger for so long. A few days, a week maybe, would have 
> served its purpose. 

aussie: (answering the last thing first)

Who says that Marietta has to go to Flitwick, Bill, St Mungo's or 
anyone else except back to Hermione and appologise. Then the cure 
would be less than a week if Marietta just trusted Harry, et al. 
Especially after LV was confirmed being sighted in MOM, she should 
have sent an owl to Harry straight away. Forgiveness needs an 
appology to start with. Hermione had already shown a willingness to 
forgive with Rita.

For Hermione, this was not school kid rivally, but war with LV 
returned which Umbridge violently (dementors and detentions) refused 
to accept. In Qudditch terms, she was a good seeker to catch that 
snitch.

Betsy's comments haunted me though. Whether it is torture 
from "good" people or "bad" people, it doesn't matter. If you are on 
the receiving end, it still hurts. Not many of us would never find 
themselves in a position of trusting and supporting the wrong person 
at some time in our lives. 
I visited Jerusalem once and saw the museum for Holocost victims. 
The carnage initiated with 36 arrested communists. Because their 
execussion was deemed "justice", it didn't take too much more 
stretching of the imagination to add more and more unpopular groups 
until millions perished. 
Betsy's comments reminded me that "no-one is expendable". Marietta 
had a sentence carried out without trial or the chance to plead her 
reasons.