Marietta yet again

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 176830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
> We're talking about a teacher more than willing to use torture and
> even death as a punishment, and please don't tell me Marietta didn't
> know that, if she didn't understand what sort of person that teacher
> was she was indeed a moral imbecile. 

Mus is puzzled: 

At the time that Marietta divulged all, how did she know this?  Harry 
and the reader know that Umbridge is willing to use torture, but he 
is rather unwilling to tell even Ron and Hermione.  Does he tell the 
rest of the DA?  If he does, then I can't find it, though I'm more 
than open to correction.

I agree that Marietta would be pretty dim if she didn't realise that 
Umbridge was strict and that the school had become a rather draconian 
place, complete with an Inquisitorial Squad an' all, but it's 
entirely possible that she was getting a different view on Umbridge 
from home.  She can't see the world through Harry's POV - we can.

For comparison, Seamus is also getting a different view on what's 
going on too.  Yes, he changes his mind, but it's canon that the 
world is not divided into Bad People and those who believe Harry.  If 
the Third Reich narrative line means anything, it shows that very bad 
things can happen with the tacit agreement of otherwise well-meaning 
people who are seduced by a line of spin which seems *rational*.  
>From the point of view of the disinterested parent, doubts about 
Dumbledore's running of the school make sense - the attacks in CoS, a 
werewolf on the staff, Cedric's death, dementors having to be 
deployed, Dumbledore's deserting of his post: none of these would 
inspire confidence in a parent who doesn't know the full story, and 
most don't.

Mus