Views of Hermione.

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 "littleleahstill" <littleleah at ...> wrote:

> 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. 

Historically that has been a common fate of a member of a secret
underground organization that betrays another member to the very power
the organization is trying to destroy. This is not kid stuff anymore,
this is life and death. Certainly Umbridge doesn't think the DA is kid
stuff, it scares the hell out of her, that's why she's willing to
torture and murder to stop it. And I'm surprised you want to minimize
that "one wrong action". Besides that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like
the play?

> I am not sure that Harry would share your opinion. 

Harry has his opinion and I have mine, but if he doesn't take the
gloves off and we don't see a little more Dirty Harry in Harry he's
not going to beat Voldemort. And more important, it would make a
better story.

> Marietta is a young girl brought up by 
> a Ministry employee, who believes what
> the Ministry says is right. 

Yes, Marietta thought the Ministry was good, and Marietta was wrong.
When a person makes an error that person must take responsibility for
that error, and Marietta's mistake was HUGE.

> So do a number of older and possibly
> wiser people, such as Percy Weasley

I think Percy Weasley will turn out to be an even greater villain than
Marietta. I don't expect him to survive book 7; he'll probably get
killed in the great wizard civil war by a member of his own family.
Stuff like that happens a lot in civil wars. 

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