Views of Hermione.

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> Marion:
> Yeah, you're so right! These hippy tree-huggers with their Human 
Rights and their 'civilised behaviour' crap! Don't these wimps 
understand it's a war our heroes are fighting? Soldiers for the 
Light are still soldiers. So what if they permanently marked a young 
girls as a 'snitch'? She was a traitor and on the wrong side: if 
you're not with us, you're against us and when you're against us you 
deserve everything our side can throw at you. Next they'll be 
telling us that soldiers should stop bombing civilian areas or that 
they shouldn't rape the local women. Hah! It's a WAR, numbskulls! 
> Pinko punks with their 'International Court for War Crimes'! Good 
thing President Bush put the Patriot Act through. When those namby 
pamby softies dare to accuse an American soldier of a 'war crime', 
we'll nuke The Hague. And surroundings. That's teach them to 
critisize the Good Guys!
> Hah! Human Rights, Geneva Conventions and Civilisation are for 
impotent wimps, not for tobacco-chewing, belly-scratching, chain-
farting machos like us!
> 
> Marion, who hopes that the readers understand the word 'sarcasm'. 
> Marion, who also happens to *live* in The Hague, and who got the 
shock of her life when she found out that a political ally of her 
country had officially stated (laid down in law, no less) that it 
would bomb her city and her country when the Internation Court for 
War Crimes, which resides in her city, would ever dare to *accuse* 
one US citizen of a war crime. Who thought this was a typical 'Bush-
thing' and therefore temporarily, but who after reading some of the 
posts on this forum is getting very, very scared...
> 


Alla:

Wow, just wow. So, Hermione is US soldier now? And here I want to 
second Magpie - here I thought that I am discussing fictional work 
where RL parallels can only go so far ( though I certainly love 
making them)

Have you ever considered the possibility that some of us who want 
bad guys to suffer without affording them equal protection under the 
law wish so precisely because they are fictional? Hmmm.

I will be doing happy dance if Snape dies ( hopefully not from 
Harry's hands though), because I think that in fiction his crimes 
are clear and he does not need to have his day in court to prove 
them, JKR showed them to me loud and clear.

While in RL I am vehemently against death penalty, because I indeed 
consider it socially approved revenge which does not solve anything.

I have a luxury of wishing bad guys to be punished because I am 
convinced of their guilt - there is not a doubt in my mind that 
Marietta is a traitor and still I think that executions of Hermione 
good intentions could have been better, as many people said.

What I am arguing vehemently against is discarding hermione good 
intentions and the thought that Marietta should have been allowed to 
go scott free. She did a horrible deed, I do not think that she 
should have been allowed to merrily continue her studies as if she 
did not do anything wrong.

Because to me it is crystal clear that she did.

IMHO of course,

Alla