Marietta

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 169628

> From: Steve <bboyminn at ...>
> >My sympathy for Marietta is limited because, conflicted
> >loyalties or not, she really had no underlying 
> >justification for her actions against people who were
> >trying to help her.
> 
> Bart:
> I am going to go as far as to say the overwhelming majority of the 
people here are in agreement on two points:
> 
> 1) The initial punishment of Marietta was reasonable.
> 2) The fact that it continued into (was allowed to continue into) 
the next sememster was not.
> 
> Bart
>
Lanval:
*raises hand* I'm certainly in agreement on both.

One more thing though, just because I've seen it mentioned at least 
twice now in the discussion: is there any canon that Marietta's 
pimples (yes, that's what they're called in HBP, not pustules, and I 
don't recall them ever described as 'oozing sores'...) are still 
there at the end of HBP?
The only reference I can think of is at the very beginning of HBP, 
on the train, which would make it September 1. We know she ratted 
out the DA sometimes in April, just before Easter. So that would 
make it about four and a half months. Meaning that "Marietta still 
is disfigured more than a year later" should be considered 
conjecture and has no support in canon, unless I've overlooked it, 
of course. The theory that she's improving, on the other hand, has 
*some* support (horrible purple pustules have become "an odd 
formation of pimples" that are hidden under a thick layer of make-
up; no more balaclava.). Anyhow, the notion that 'Hermione has 
permanently disfigured Marietta' remains IMO unfounded until 
proven.