Even weirder because Hermione herself acknowledges permanently marking someone's skin as a problematic thing to do when she distinguishes between the Dark Mark and her coins. And the Dark Mark, while definitely creepy, is a voluntary permanent mark, which both parties know about in advance. I could totally understand the DA shunning her and calling her nasty names, or shooting Tripping Jinxes at her in the halls, or even having some sort of ink-based version of the "sneak" curse which wears off after a week or two. Not nice, or useful for prevention, but more on the scale you would expect for the offense, and the ink-sneak would probably still be enough to scare her so that she would reconsider talking further (since she wouldn't know what might happen next). They want punishment and vengeance? Fine, but there's options that don't involve scars.
Marietta was waffly, and I might actually have respected her more if she had turned in the DA right away rather than months after it became illegal. If you're inclined to be generous, maybe she was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and only decided she had to do it when she heard they were going to learn to fight the official government prison guards... but we don't know either way, and she does seem like whatever her principles are, she isn't very strong-willed, at least not for good friends, and authority figures who are her mom's co-workers in a situation were her limited knowledge of the situation really might make Harry and his DA look shady.
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Date: 2011-10-12 06:11 am (UTC)Marietta was waffly, and I might actually have respected her more if she had turned in the DA right away rather than months after it became illegal. If you're inclined to be generous, maybe she was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and only decided she had to do it when she heard they were going to learn to fight the official government prison guards... but we don't know either way, and she does seem like whatever her principles are, she isn't very strong-willed, at least not for good friends, and authority figures who are her mom's co-workers in a situation were her limited knowledge of the situation really might make Harry and his DA look shady.