Views of Hermione

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 160586

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at ... wrote:
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Julie:
> Hermione's actions and intent however are pretty much fact. That
> is why I feel I can judge her conclusively in a way that I  can't 
yet
> judge Snape (I can only theorize about him). And the fact that she
> didn't place the hex to protect the DA (or if she did it was  
woefully
> inadequate and hardly indicative of her supposed intelligence)  but
> used the hex rather to exact punishment after the damage had  been
> done, makes me critical of her actions. I don't think it was  
worthy of 
> her, regardless of Marietta's own actions (and she was wrong, more
> so than Hermione, but again it's not a contest). 

Quick_Silver:
Ok but unless I'm forgetting something Hermione never openly says 
that she hexed the parchment to get revenge. And I can quite readily 
buy her placing the hex in the belief that it would protect the DA 
because that totally fits with Hermione's character in OotP (and the 
other books too really). The DA jinx could be a mirror of Hermione's 
troubles with SPEW
she has good/decent/honorable intentions, then she 
bungles the implementation of it, and then she's indifferent/blind to 
the consequences of her actions. I mean throughout the books (IMO) 
really there's this theme of Hermione having these great/inventive 
ideas/plans and then getting bungled on the small details or things 
that she overlooked like the polyjuice plot in CoS (Malfoy being not 
guilty and the cat hair), SPEW and the DA in OotP, and getting Ron in 
HBP.  

Julie:
> Whether Hermione could remove the jinx at her discretion is not
> known, but if she could, I'd again argue that doing so would be  
the 
> right thing for a "good" person to do, also regardless of  whether
> Marietta expresses remorse (or just parrots it, since she doesn't
> remember). 

Quick_Silver:
Yeah I agree with this
I find it easy to explain away the hex itself 
as misguided and amateurish but Hermione's actions after or lack 
thereof are disturbing. I just see no reason to leave the jinx on 
Marietta.

Quick_Silver