Hermione must be stopped, ...-Hermione's Crimes

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149343

> kchuplis:
> 
> I keep seeing this referenced, but I was never under the impression 
> that she went to her mother. My impression of what was written that 
> because her mother worked for the ministry she decided follow 
> Umbridge's "I am your friend and Harry is a liar" line...after, BTW, 
> benefitting 6 months of DA training from Harry so she WOULD be able to 
> get a decent OWL. Is this just my interpretation or did others see it 
> that way too?
>

Pippin:
If Marietta is in the same year as Cho (does canon ever say?) she's
already taken her OWLs. Marietta blabs when Harry starts teaching
the class how to fight dementors. I can understand why Marietta suddenly
had trouble with her conscience. It's a situation not too far removed
from the one Draco and Regulus found themselves in. 

Hermione told the group that Umbridge's idea that Dumbledore 
was trying to put together a militant anti-ministry group was 
"mad",  but then Harry started teaching them to fight ministry 
employees. That wasn't what Marietta signed up for.

I'm not so sure Hermione knows how to remove the hex. She
doesn't seem to have practiced it first. What really scares me is
this -- if Harry had confessed in Dumbledore's office, as he was 
about to, would the hex would have struck him too?

I think JKR is more concerned with illustrating destructive patterns of 
behavior and showing *why* they're destructive  than with punctuating 
each act of misbehavior with a comeuppance. Hermione's actions
lost her the confidence of the group, IMO-- only Ginny, Neville and Luna 
were willing to come to her aid in HBP.

Pippin