Marietta

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 169499


> Julie:

> What Marietta did was betray her schoolmates to possible detention
> and expulsion from school, not to torture nor execution. 

I think you vastly underestimate the threat of expulsion.  It's not
like they can go to the high school on the other side of town.
Hogwarts is the only magic school on their island. they'd have their
wands snapped.  its not out of the question that getting kicked out
would lead to a complete exile from the magical world since they
aren't allowed to do magic and haven't sat for their owls.  In a world
with a Voldemort in it, that can get them all killed.

Think objectively about what it would really mean for Harry to have
his wand snapped and banned from Hogwarts.  Think about how easily
Voldemort would steam roll over the Wizarding World without the
unknown threat of Harry hanging over his head?  Those of us who think
Marietta committed a serious wrong/betrayal are thinking about that
and that's why we can't forgive her.
  
> 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.

she banned a self defense class.  Even if she honestly believed that
Voldemort wasn't real, the Wizarding World is still a dangerous enough
place that it borders on criminal negligence.  Since we know Voldemort
is around, it's almost like a Army Basic Training instructor refusing
to teach someone how to shoot a gun.

And most, if not all of the students did believe that Voldemort was
back which does at a legitimate element of resistance fighting to
their class.  Harry even managed to shut up Zack Smith with his crack
about Expelliarmus working when he dueled Voldemort.

phoenixgod2000