Marietta

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 169258

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> All those crying over Marietta's acne should remember that if this was
> real life and a secret underground organization had discover one of
> their own members had betrayed them to the fascist enemy that traitor
>   would be very lucked indeed to survive with her life. This is no
> longer kid stuff, this is life and death, and there is no reason to
> except our literary heroes would fit in comfortably with Saturday
> morning cartoon morality. 
> 
> Eggplant
>

Hickengruendler:

Marietta, first and foremost, is still a student. She didn't subscribe 
to any kind of war group, but to a student organisation, which was 
still allowed, once she signed the parchment. We also learn, that she 
is worried about he rmother. I do not really like the mean-spirited 
little snot, and I don't agree with what she did, simply because she 
could just have stopped going to the meeting instead of ratting them 
all out. But I do find the punishment really, really harsh, 
particularly that it was still on her face months later. I did not read 
it that way, she was disfigured forever, in fact, I thought her using 
the heavy makeup (in contrast to the Balaclava) in HBP was an indice, 
that it vanished slowly, but I still find it over the top. Umbridge got 
away easier than Marietta (though I hope this will change in book 7).