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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 169384


> bboyminn:

> A person evil enough to become a Death Eater will 
> simply find other ways to be evil even if they
> forget why they joined the DE's. That's not true of
> Marietta.

Pippin:
That doesn't seem to be JKR's view of evil, though. 
All her characters, even Voldemort, have specific things
they are trying to gain "I didn't want to create this 
cardboard cutout of a baddie, where you put a black 
hat on him and you say 'Right, now you shoot at that
guy because he's bad.'

 Here's what Jo has to say about Hermione:

"Hermione, with the best of intentions, becomes quite 
self-righteous. My heart is entirely with her as she 
goes through this. She develops her political conscience. 
My heart is completely with her. But my brain tells me, 
which is a growing-up thing, that in fact she blunders 
towards the very people she's trying to help. She 
offends them."

(both comments from 
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-hottype-solomon.htm
(you may have to cut and paste the link into your browser)
> 

I'm not trying to villify Hermione, just agreeing with the
author that some of her actions  are offensive.
 Many of the characters seem to go through a dangerous
phase where they have the powers of an adult but the 
shortsighted vision of a child, and some of them do
ruthless and unjust things.  'Evil' is definitely too strong a word--
nobody is saying that Hermione is *habitually*  and
*intentionally* ruthless or unjust, but 'idiot' or 'berk' will 
do nicely, IMO.

Hermione was unfair to *all*  the members of the DA.
I don't suppose anyone here would like to find out that
a contract they signed had provisions written in invisible
ink, known to the other party but not to you. It would
be like wizards to do that as a practical joke, of course, but
Hermione was not joking, and the lasting nature of
the hex shows she was not.  


Steve:
> I don't see Marietta going to the police, don't see
> Marietta's mother demanding that Hermione be thrown
> into Azkaban.

Pippin:
Huh? Dawlish and Shacklebolt *are* the police. But
there's nothing much for the aurors to investigate, since 
no one  can answer questions about the DA without being
hexed themselves. If Cho tells *anyone* what happened, 
she's going to have SNEAK written on her cheeks too. 
Not nice, is it? 

Pippin