Marietta/MoM role

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149282



Allie:

I'm not convinced that the spots are totally gone, because they need 
to be hidden under layers of makeup.  I was a little bit disturbed 
that they were still there as well, until I realized that Marietta 
NEVER APOLOGIZED to anyone.  To Harry, Hermione, or even her friend 
Cho, who also could have been expelled!  Cho even defends her to Harry 
at the end of OoTP!  And I'm thoroughly convinced that if Marietta 
went to Hermione, apologized for almost getting them all expelled, and 
asked Hermione to remove the charm, she would do it in a heartbeat.  

(By the spots still being there, JKR is also reminding us how 
extraordinarily talented Hermione is, not that we need it.)


  kchuplis:

  Maybe that is even part of the charm? A possibility. It's also another of those cases where, how hard did the Ministry work to find a counter jinx? We have only Umbridge's word that they tried to find something and when she was doing that, she was more than a bit crazed. I can't see, either, her spending any spare thought for Marietta after that night (or helping her mother if her mother asked [after all, a snitch is a snitch and unfortunately that sometimes works against the snitcher on all levels; i.e. even the people who benefit from the snitching don't trust the snitch]). Unfortunately, I see Marietta as paying a price by imitating what she sees in her corrupt gov't. I find it interesting that more has not been asked too about Rufus Scrimegeour. 

  I find the new MoM to be rather like what we are accusing Remus of....a good man doing nothing. Here is a warrior, someone who has fought the fight and yet now we see him doing not much in book 6 except trying to get Harry as a posterboy for the MoM (or we, through Harry's and OOTP eyes don't see anything happening). I also wonder what DD's relationship pre-fight over Harry was with old Rufus? It would be really interesting to know how he really regarded Scrimegeour. We can assume that he, like others, is a bit of a "yesman" as he *was* head of the aurors, and so had to be to get to that position. Ministry malcontents don't seem to wind up head of anything, even if they don't get chucked out.  Just some thoughts I've been having in regards to book 7 and possibilities.

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