Dark Magic (+ a little Marietta)

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No: HPFGUIDX 176798

prep0strus:
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> Since I'm hovering near the topic... Marietta.  Is it primary canon
> that the scars remain, or is that JKR in an interview?
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Alla:

"Louie: Did mariettas pimply formation ever fade
J.K. Rowling: Eventually, but it left a few scars. I loathe a 
traitor!"


Oh and was I glad that JKR defined pretty clear IMO what she 
intended Marietta to be? Yes, I unashamedly was.

I loathe a traitor indeed.

I am not asking anybody to agree with me, but I do despise what 
Marietta did and glad that JKR seems to think the same.

She could have stressed lots of mitigating circumstances if she 
wanted to   IMO - show that Marietta was scared that her mom's job 
would be in jeopardy, OR did what they did in the movie with Cho, or 
show Umbridge indeed interrogate Marietta and force the info out of 
her.

She did not do any of that and the picture I get is that Marietta 
deliberately betrayed her fellow students, she made sure that their 
futures lay in the hand of Umbridge of all people.

The punishment is harsh, no question about it and certainly I would 
not Okay with it in RL, but again since we are in book verse and I 
do not feel a need to think of RL equivalent punishments for things 
like that, I am perfectly fine with it.

I had argued in the past that JKR intended Marietta to be mini 
Pettigrew of the sort - not AS serious, but in essense the same. I 
happen to think that it is so. Do I think Pettigrew deserved what he 
got? Most definitely. Same with Marietta for me. I do not buy that 
JKR intended for DA to be kids' game.

JMO,

Alla