Hermione must be stopped, or at least slapped

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 149314

> Alla:
> but I
> have no sympathy for Marieta and think that Hermione had to protect
> DA somehow.
> 
> Magpie:
> She didn't protect the DA.  She punished the person who blabbed 
without 
> setting up any way to warn the DA or protect them.
> 
Lyra:
The initial appearance of the "Sneak" blemishes was disturbing, for 
the reasons Magpie lists here and in the part of her post I snipped, 
but at least you could understand part of Hermione's purpose. But in 
a small, closed environment like Hogwarts, surely everyone knew that 
Marietta was the sneak within -- let's be conservative and say -- 48 
hours. What's the point of branding her past that, and certainly an 
entire year later (for as far as we know, she still has the 
blemishes)? Hermione is the girl who burst into tears and ran to the 
hospital wing when her teeth were cursed. You'd think once her 
purpose was served in alerting the school to Marietta's crime, she 
could have a little emphathy for another teenage girl whose face has 
been disfigured. (Even Snape, dispite his rep as an unfeeling jerk, 
doesn't stop her from getting treatment after he insults her; so to 
me, Hermione comes off looking like she's less feeling than Snape.)

Lyra (who is working on the summary for Chapt 12 and was going to 
ask a question about this very subject until you all beat her to it.)