They're reluctant even to tell about things the authority figures they don't like are doing wrong (unless it's Snape), which is weird. What if Harry had told another teacher - McGonagall or Flitwick, say - about Umbridge's blood quill instead of trying to hide it even from his friends? I mean, I think it's probably an accurate dynamic for a troubled, abused kid who's now run into a new abuser, but then, he isn't the only victim of the blood quill, and none of the other kids seem to tell either. What's up with that? Is the school culture so bad that kids expect to be physically injured by teachers as a matter of course, and that complaining will not get them any help and might get them in trouble? And more importantly, why doesn't the book ever address the issue in any way? Even Harry realized he could have called Sirius with the mirror, so why didn't anyone go, "Gee, maybe if we'd tried talking to McGonagall, Umbridge might have been publicly disgraced ages ago and we would have had a lot fewer problems, oops"?
Yeah, I think we just don't have enough information on what Marietta did, said, and thought for the last few months and when she turned in the DA to make any definitive judgments. And if she isn't proven guilty of being a horrible person, I can't consider her one.
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Date: 2011-10-12 06:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think we just don't have enough information on what Marietta did, said, and thought for the last few months and when she turned in the DA to make any definitive judgments. And if she isn't proven guilty of being a horrible person, I can't consider her one.