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

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 149386


> Carol:
> What concerns me most is that Hermione has previously expressed
> concern over the Twins' intention to blackmail Ludo Bagman, i.e.,
> their intention to commit exactly the same crime Hermione later
> commits:

<Snip, huge snip. > 

> By OoP, she's ready to put the two together and commit blackmail
> herself in pursuit of vengeance, either disregarding the
> consequences...


Amiable Dorsai
I've missed something.  Vengeance?  Are you talking about Hermione's
strongarming of Rita into telling Harry's story?  Other than
Hermione's threat to tell Molly that the twins were using 
first-years as guinea pigs, that's the only blackmail I can recall
Hermione performing in OoP. 

Do you really see that as primarily an act of vengeance?  Myself, I
thought it was a last-ditch attempt to warn the wizarding world that
the most evil wizard in history was back, as a way to combat the
Ministry's propaganda campaign to the contrary.  It was a bit
delicious, I admit, that Hermione managed to stick it to an evil and
oppressive government functionary in the process, and that her
instrument was the very woman whose libel gave Fudge's lies currency,
but vengeance seemed to be, at most, a serendipitous side-effect.

So where are we?  On the one hand, we have Hermione disapproving of
blackmail when she thinks it's being used to steal money from an
innocent man, and on the other, we have Hermione using blackmail 
in an attempt to save the world.

Carol:
> While I don't think Hermione deserves to be slapped, I do think she
> needs to get her priorities straight, and quickly, if she's going to
> be an agent for the side of Good in Book 7.

Amiable Dorsai:
Stealing money vs. saving the world...  I'd say she's got a fairly
good sense of priorities already.

Amiable Dorsai