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

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 149356


> bboyminn:
>> Yet, Hermione does show some mercy. So, she kept Rita in a jar for a
>> couple of days, and let her go when they got to London.

Magpie:
Personally, if I had a good friend who was an unregistered animagi I 
wouldn't feel comfortable turning anyone into Azkaban for it.  But actually, 
it's a MONTH she's got the woman in a jar.  I suspect JKR wasn't really 
thinking it through what it would mean to spend 28 days or so in a glass jar 
and maybe was just thinking of it as being a scene or two later (which is 
probably why people think of it as a short time), but it's a MONTH she's got 
the woman in a GLASS JAR. I don't know wizarding law, but I'd imagine any 
real life equivalent would have Hermione facing far more serious charges 
than Rita the Unregistered (like most animagi we know) Animagus. It's like 
comparing a crime of not declaring income on your taxes to Jame Gumm with 
the girl trapped in his basement!:-)

-m