Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 185660

 
> That being said, I would like to clarify the timeline that I was 
discussing- 
> Marietta's pimples (pustules) were there months later, and 
those "months 
> later" occurred during the school year. 

Magpie:
Marietta still has pustules in the following book, after the summer. 
She's wearing heavy make-up to cover them, and Harry smirks when he 
sees her.

Which is why I assumed they were permenant. When I saw them at the 
end of OotP I think I just assumed they'd fade over time, but when 
JKR went to the trouble of giving Harry a smirking moment in the next 
book that indicated that I should assume they were on-going. JKR then 
by her admission "forgot about her" so left me with a last impression 
that her pustules were an on-going feature of hers. When asked in an 
interview she said eventually they faded but left a few scars and 
that she loathed a traitor.

I would put the responsibility for them totally on Hermione, just as, 
if Hermione's teeth proved unshrinkable, I would have considered 
Draco responsible. I assumed Draco used a known spell that anyone 
would know wouldn't be permenant while Hermione intentionally created 
one that would take years to fade. So Hermione scarred her face for 
life but only gave her pustules for months or years as punishment for 
telling about the DA.


-m