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

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149363

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Karen <kchuplis at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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.

Ceridwen:
I checked.  ME did not go to her mother, she did go to Umbridge.  The 
mention of her mother was when Umbridge tells her that Fudge will 
tell Mrs Edgecomb what a good girl she's been (OotP US pg 612 for 
mother, 613 for telling Umbridge).
*(snipping)*

Karen:
> And how did Harry specifically teach them to fight ministry 
> employees? 

Ceridwen:

>From Pippin's post: "Marietta blabs when Harry starts teaching the 
class how to fight dementors. I can understand why Marietta suddenly 
had trouble with her conscience."

At the time, the Dementors were guarding Azkaban.  Therefore, 
Ministry employees.  Corruptable, and OFT (Themselves, they're a 
group), but still at least nominally under the Ministry.

Karen:
> It isn't as though they 
> have dummies labeled "Fudge" "Umbridge" "Kevin" standing around to 
> practice on.

Ceridwen:
lol!  Poor Kevin, lumping him in with those two!

Ceridwen.