[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione must be stopped, ...-Hermione's Crimes

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149344


On Thursday, March 9, 2006, at 07:56 PM, pippin_999 wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>


kchuplis:

That didn't really answer my question but it does bring up a new point. 
I do not get the impression either that the group loses confidence in 
Hermione, but rather that it just means the most to Ginny, Neville and 
Luna. And how did Harry specifically teach them to fight ministry 
employees? He is only teaching the jinxes and charms that he knows and 
has found successful in "real life" situations. It isn't as though they 
have dummies labeled "Fudge" "Umbridge" "Kevin" standing around to 
practice on. Is there some dialogue in a DA meeting I am forgetting 
where they are urging attacks on the ministry?