Views of Hermione.

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 160597

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
>  "pippin_999" <foxmoth@> wrote:
> 
> > it was Dobby who warned the DA, it was
> > Shacklebolt who kept Marietta from 
> > incriminating anyone, and it was Dumbledore
> > who arranged for Harry to escape punishment
> > I can't see that Hermione's curse helped
> > with any of that. 
> 
> Don't be silly, without Hermione's curse that piece of filth called
> Marietta would have spilled the beans in Umbridge's office, 
including
> the fact that Harry was the leader and they had been meeting 
illegally
> for many months. And this would have been long before Dumbledore 
could
> help, it would have been long before Dumbledore even knew about 
it. As
> it was Marietta's evil treachery caused Sirius's death and probably
> many others. In the real world she would  not have gotten acne, she
> would have gotten a bullet in the brain. And I would shed no tears
> over her.    
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of revisionism, but this 
Marietta is
> a hero and Hermione is a villain business just won't fly. 
> 
> Eggplant

Marietta is not a hero, neither is Hermione a villain. She is a 
brave and clever girl who needs to think some things over more 
carefully.

What Marietta did was wrong.  Nevertheless, I am surprised that you 
would have shed no tears over a 17 year old girl getting 'a bullet 
in the brain' for one wrong action. I am not sure that Harry would 
share your opinion.

Marietta is a young girl brought up by a Ministry employee, who 
believes what the Ministry says is right.  So do a number of older 
and possibly wiser people, such as Percy Weasley, Cornelius Fudge 
and the Auror Dawlish to name but a few.  She is scared and she does 
wrong, for which action you would be happy to see her dead.      
>

If Marietta had spilled the beans in Umbridge's office, I am not 
convinced it would have been beyond the powers of Albus Dumbledore 
to have remedied the situation.  And let's not forget that everyone 
in DA knew they were doing something illegal and were taking the 
risk of discovery and betrayal.

Marietta's action was a contributory factor in the chain of events 
which led to Sirius' death, as were the actions of others including 
Dumbledore and Harry.  But the decision to go to the MOM was made by 
a grown man, Sirius, and the direct cause of his death was a grown 
woman, Bellatrix Lestrange.  

And having a daughter who suffered from acne during her teenage 
years, I'm a bit tired of reading post after post referring to that 
condition as if it were no more than the odd freckle. It is a 
disfiguring condition and Marietta is, in Rowling's own 
words, 'horribly disfigured'.

Leah