Marietta yet again

[eggplant107]

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zeldaricdeau" 

> How do we objectively determine 
> who deserves what? 

You do the best you can. You don't really expect me to give a more
detailed answer than that do you; philosophers have been arguing about
that for thousands of years.
 
> I don't believe that, at the time,
> Marietta was involved in an actual war

Dumbledore called it a war, Harry called it a war, and the
organization she betrayed was called Dumbledore's ARMY.

> and I certainly don't think she saw 
> herself as being involved in one. 

Then she was dead wrong and when you make an error of that colossal 
magnitude you can expect to pay a price.
 
"Carol" wrote:

> She would have seen herself as fighting
> for the wrong side, 

It could be, of course she'd have to be a moral imbecile, but it could
be. However to tell the truth I don't much care how she saw herself, I
see her as a traitor. 

> I think it was underhanded of Hermione not
> to tell anyone about the jinx on the parchment. 

If people just kept their word that jinx was of no importance, if they
don't keep their word, well, I don't believe it is common practice for
gorilla resistance organizations to make life easy for potential traitors.
 
Harry received scars for doing the right thing so I just can't work up
any tears over Marietta receiving scars for doing the wrong thing. I
lost all respect for Cho too the instant she started defending
Marietta, up to then I rather liked her. 

>  She didn't believe that Voldemort was back 

And she was wrong, dead wrong. In your post you imply that she had one
erroneous idea after another after another, but you seem to forget
there are consequences when you are that wrong about so many things. 
And by the end of book 5 everybody knew Harry was right and Voldemort
was back, but did she apologies for her treacherous behavior? Nope,
not in book 5,6 or 7. If it had been me I'd be totally ashamed of
myself and I certainly wouldn't be complaining about pimples, I'd
think I deserved the disfigurement. 

 Eggplant