Bill's injury WAS:Re: Sympathy to the characters

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 159773

> Pippin:
> Hermione's anti-snitching jinx caused Marietta's face to be
> mutilated, and her refusal to tell what she knew about the
> vanishing cabinet led to Bill's face being mutilated. I
> wondered whether she was afraid that the curse she put on the
> parchment would strike her if she were questioned and let
> something slip about the DA. But anyway she would have looked
> like a hypocrite after visiting such a severe punishment on
> Marietta. The boys lightly persuaded her that Montague would
> recover and anyway it would just be more trouble for Umbridge.
> But Montague's troubles turned out to mean trouble for everyone.
>
> That both Marietta and Bill suffered facial disfigurement seems
> to be a deliberate parallel by the author. I think it is meant
> to show that while it may seem fair to visit injustice and
> cruelty on those who are unjust or cruel, the effects often
> multiply themselves and affect innocent people.


Charles:

Speaking up about the cabinet would *not* have been letting something
slip about the DA. The DA had nothing to do with Gred and Forge
shoving Montague into that vanishing cabinet. And while the action
itself was over the top and excessive, it was not necessarily
*injust*.

As far as Hermione even being able to tell someone about the cabinet:
The nature of the WW is for adult witches and wizards to generally
ignore what underage witches and wizards tell them anyway (plenty of
examples of this, from the beginning). In any case, for Hermione to
have been able to alert someone to the fact that Draco was going to
use that vanishing cabinet, she would have to know that that was what
he was trying to fix.

Last but not least, IMNSHO, Marietta got what she deserved. It was
not over the top, nor overly cruel. She betrayed the DA. Not only was
it a broken promise, but she knew that she was going to get many of
her friends expelled and possibly criminally prosecuted by what she
knows is an unjust government. AFAIC, having the word "sneak" across
her face is a light punishment, considering what could have happened
to the rest of the DA.

As to this all relating to Bill's injury, it's an interesting theory,
but I cannot subscribe to it. I believe that the twofold purpose of
Bill's injury are to: 1.)Show the viciousness of Fenrir Greyback on a
non-full-moon night to contrast with the gentle nature of Lupin on
the same. and 2.)Provide a means to reconcile Fleur and the other
females in Bill's life.

Charles Walker-
Who really wonders what Bill is going to be like at the full moon.