[HPforGrownups] Marietta

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 176859

>
> Angel:
>
> Here however, it's interesting that Marietta is punished for betraying the
> trio.  In essence Marietta betrayed her friends - Cho who brought her
> along.
> It seems to JKR the worst sin is to first betray the trio, second betray
> your friends.  Marietta as a child/teenager was judged and very much
> deserved her permanent punishment because she committed those two sins in
> one.  It was okay for Marietta to betray her mother and authority but not
> her friends and most certainly not the trio!
>
> Percy was left unblemished because he betrayed his family for his own set
> of
> friends an act JKR once again seems to consider gallant.  Besides the
> Weasleys could afford to lose only one child and Fred's death much more
> dramatic a loss <bg>


montims:
the "betrayal" was sneaking.  It is a commonplace in British stories about
children, particularly of the boarding school genre, that you do not sneak,
or grass, or tell tales on, your peers...  Percy did not snitch on his
family - he just abandoned them.  A grass is despised, and quite rightly, in
the best of circumstances.  In the dangerous times in which Marietta sold
out her classmates, her behaviour was worse than despicable.  She did not
"betray" her mother or authority - if anything, she disobeyed them, but that
is not a punishable action.  Telling tales on your peers is.


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