Family and Other Loyalty

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177814


> Random832:
> Well...canon says, I believe, that Umbridge is intercepting the post. 
> So, how could she have gone to her mother? Hell, as far as that goes 
> canon doesn't ACTUALLY say she _didn't_ go to her mother. Imagine 
this: 
> She writes a letter to her mother - saying she's worried about stuff, 
> etc; sufficiently vague as to not trigger the curse. Umbridge reads 
it. 
> Then Umbridge wants to have a little 'talk' with Marietta, and, in 
that 
> situation, how many of you can say you wouldn't cave into the kind of 
> threats we know Umbridge is capable of making?

Magpie:
Or Umbridge could have gotten in touch with Marietta's mother. If she 
knows everybody who works at the Ministry who has kids at Hogwarts, the 
word could easily be putting pressure on people there. Marietta's 
mother could have made that clear to Marietta, making Marietta go to 
Umbridge or whatever.

Basically, we have no idea what happened, but her mother working for 
the Ministry is the only thing mentioned for a motive for Marietta. 
Making it just an excuse seems to add a level of complication that 
makes it even less comprehensible. Why would Marietta put herself out 
there at all if she just didn't want to stand up to the Ministry? 

The above scenario was the one that I imagined when I read the story, 
that people at the Ministry were leaned on and whichever ones were 
weaker were going to pressure their kids. Umbridge could also have read 
mail from Marietta, I suppose, and gotten a clue. I just naturally put 
together the few things I have been told to make it work. In this case 
there doesn't seem to be enough reason to assume that anything's been 
put forward as a lie.

-m