Views of Hermione.

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:

> 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.
> 

Pippin:
Thanks for this, it makes your position much clearer to me. What
you want, then, is that the good guys should have the luxury of 
assuming that their good intentions and high ideals will keep them
from messing up too badly? And of assuming that those whose
intentions are not so good and whose ideals are not so noble
are capable of the absolute worst and so should be dealt with 
ruthlessly?

I am glad to know you don't think this works in the real world.
A lot of people do, you know, and I would hate to think that JKR is 
encouraging them. More to the point, I think that Hermione, and
Harry to a lesser extent, have indeed fallen prey to this form of
magical thinking. I don't believe that JKR means to make it 
work for them.

But if you do think it works, then it explains why you think
Snape must be a bad guy, and why Draco, despite his incapacity,
must be considered murderous, and why Dumbledore was so
wrong not to trust in Sirius's high ideals and good intentions
rather than in the Dursleys and the blood protection. 

I think JKR means to show us that high ideals and good
intentions, though they are good in themselves, do not 
substitute for ability, nor do they excuse people from
responsibility for the consequences of their actions which
could reasonably be foreseen. And  the consequence 
of unfairness is more unfairness, as Hermione should know.

If  she wants justice, then she needs not only to be as critical
of her friends as she is of her enemies, (she's got that part!)
she has to be as forgiving of her enemies as she is of her 
friends. Nothing less. Of course that's not as much fun as 
beating the snot out of bad guys. Maybe that's why no matter 
how many bad guys get the snot beat out of them, justice still 
seems so very far away?

Pippin