[HPforGrownups] Hermione's Hex

[Ffred Clegg]

No: HPFGUIDX 160756

Nikkalmati wrote:
>But think about the consequences for the students if even a study club is  
>discovered by DU.  All unapproved clubs are illegal.  It must have  been 
>apparent to Marietta that she was stabbing her friends in the back.   It is not as 
>though she had independently discovered wrongdoing by the students  and felt she 
>had to report it.  Everyone there "trusted" her.  She  gave her word.  I 
>don't see how learning to repel Dementors was an attack  on the MOM.  No one would 
>want to be on the wrong side of a Dementor and  the spell was defensive only. 
>No excuses for Marietta here.

Marietta had an alternative course of action if she no longer wanted to be part of the DA. Maybe even two alternative courses of action. She _could_ have talked to Hermione, said that she wanted to leave because of the risk to her mother's job, and promised that she'd keep quiet about what was going on. Or she _could_ have just stopped going, found an excuse not to (that overdue essay, or whatever...) Either way, the secret would have been safe and so would she.

She didn't. She _chose_ to make a grass and a tout and a weasel of herself and she suffered the penalty.

Quite right too.

Cheers

Ffred


	
	
		
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