Marietta

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 169496

 


Harry,  Ron and Hermione were certainly aware of it and the monstrous
nature of  Marietta's offense. The other members of the DA seem to
understand this too  as none of them (except Cho) are very upset at her
fate. As for Marietta  herself, all of the defenses of her are
variations on this theme: Marietta  should not be held responsible for
committing a very evil act because the  ideas bouncing around in her
head were ignorant and or stupid. I just don't  buy that as an excuse,
when your ideas are that astronomically wrong you  have to pay the
consequences. Unfortunately all Marietta got was  acne.

Eggplant





Julie:
You seem to have a problem accepting that many of us DON"T  consider 
Marietta's act of a "monstrous" nature, nor "very evil" (nor even just  
"evil").
Thus she should *not* be held accountable for such acts as she did  not
commit such acts. However, Voldemort, Fenrir, Bellatrix, Wormtail,  and
Umbridge, to name a few, can be held accountable for monstrous and
very evil acts, since they have actually committed such acts!
 
What Marietta did was betray her schoolmates to possible detention
and expulsion from school, not to torture nor execution. (We have NOT
a shred of evidence that anyone besides the Trio knew about  Umbridge's
form of punishment on Harry's hand, and even those three don't know
she sent the Dementors to Harry's house). What she did *was*  betrayal,
but in a school setting, not a war setting. She was wrong, but her  act
was hardly evil. And she more than paid for it, in a manner I would say  is
probably typical of WW schoolyard justice. I agree most of the DA  didn't
question Marietta's punishment, but teenagers do tend to take *any* slight  
or 
betrayal deeply to heart, and at Hogwarts no one blinks at fellow  students
locked up in cabinets, stuffed in toilets, hexed, cursed or laid up in  the
infirmary for weeks being cured of various magical retributions brought  on
by real or perceived slights and betrayals. So why would they ponder  the
relative fairness or morality of Marietta's punishment?
 
Still, I guess you're free to equate a school club formed illegally to  learn
a forbidden subject with the French Resistance in the midst of an  actual
war, and label Marietta as a MONSTROUS, VERY EVIL 15 year old who 
should have been executed. You might consider though that very few
others here (if any?), even those who think Hermione's vengeance was 
well-played and well-deserved, seem to agree with your view. Could it
be that your view is a little too extreme?
 
Julie



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