Responses to Marietta (was: Misc. responses, some quite old)

[AmanitaMuscaria]

No: HPFGUIDX 169237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > What was truly disturbing to me was Harry's gleeful reaction to
> > seeing that Marietta was *still* disfigured in HBP.  The parallel
> > between her oozing pustules and the type of atrocities that 
> > are regularly (and rightly) condemned by human rights 
> > organizations--such as facial branding or disfigurement with
> > acid--is too close for me to think that JKR endorses Hermione's
> > actions.
> 
> Pippin:
> Especially since there's such an obvious parallel with Umbridge's
> scarring of Harry. Hermione certainly wasn't okay with the Ministry
> having that kind of power! 
> 
> I admire Hermione's principles, her courage,  and her good 
intentions. 
> I often admire her actions, but not in this case.   As often 
happens 
> with young witches and wizards in Rowling's story, she got carried 
> away with her cleverness and let her powers run away with her. 
> While I think Harry and Hermione already realize that this is not 
something 
> that only happens to "bad" wizards, I think they have yet to 
realize 
> that it could happen to them.
> 
> Pippin
>

AmanitaMuscaria now - Does no one think that maybe there's something 
that _Marietta_ needs to do to break the curse?
I thought once we discovered that it was still active in HBP, that 
the solution was for her to go to the DA and tell them what she did 
and why. 
I think the wizarding world is harsh, and things aren't meant to be 
fair, or easily curable, necessarily.
Witness the Ministry wizard at the World Cup in GoF who had 'had 
those horns for a while now' or some such quote.
Cheers, AM