witches of the world (was: Lavender vs Hermione)

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 160413


> Hickengruendler:
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> My favourite female character is Hermione, because I think she's the 
> best written. I do not hold sending Umbridge to the centaurs against 
> her, since she was in a despereate situation and had to do something 
> to stop Dolly from torturing Harry. I find the Marietta jinx much 
> more problematic. It's about the only time, where I didn't like how 
> JKR wrote her, particularly that the jinx was still on Marietta's 
> face in HBP. I'll see if this stays one of the times, where I don't 
> like what JKR did, or if it will be used in a similar way the 
> Vanishing cabinet incident with the twins and Montague was used, 
> where I had problems with after OotP but bow like it very much, after 
> what happened in HBP, since I see why JKR wrote this.

Amiable Dorsai:
I have an idea about that: JKR seems to be making a lot of magical
obligations of various kinds--Life Debts, the magical contract that
Harry was entered into against his will, the Unbreakable Vow, and so
on.  It's my belief that a magical obligation, or obligations, will
turn out to be important to the resolution of book 7--JKR does love to
plant her seeds for later harvest, your example of the Vanishing
Cabinet is right on the money, I think.

In that vein, I'd speculate that what Marietta did was violate a
magical contract between herself *and the rest of the DA*. If so, then
Hermione probably can't lift the curse by herself--to do so, I'm
guessing, would require that at least a majority of the DA members
forgive the violation.

I won't insist on this explanation, there are too many uncertanties in
my chain of logic for that, but it would fit a theme that I think JKR
is developing.

Amiable Dorsai.