❝ We haven't got time for them, Cho.❞
Creator - Elesanna
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- ♦♦NAME ♦♦Marietta Edgecombe
♦♦ AGE ♦♦ 16
♦♦ GENDER ♦♦ female
♦♦ HAIR COLOR ♦♦ Reddish-blonde
♦♦ EYE COLOR ♦♦ blue
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- ♦♦ GRADE ♦♦ Sixth year
♦♦ HOUSE ♦♦ Ravenclaw
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- ♦♦ PARENTS ♦♦ Mister Edgecombe and Madam Edgecombe
♦♦ SIBLINGS ♦♦ None
♦♦ BLOOD STATUS ♦♦ Pureblood
♦♦ CRUSH ♦♦ Grant Bancroft
♦♦ RELATIONSHIP STATUS ♦♦ single
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- ♦♦ WHO I AM ♦♦
When Cho became depressed over Cedric's death, Marietta was presumably comforting and supportive, being the only one to remain with her when the other friends left irresponsibly. Cho claimed Marietta is a lovely person, an attribute that was mostly unseen in her appearances.
However, Marietta is one of the many people who were loyal to the Ministry of Magic and was sceptical of Harry Potter's statement of Lord Voldemort returning. She thought that he and Albus Dumbledore were liars and remained cynical towards him even throughout Dumbledore's Army, and would not be swayed by genuine article within The Quibbler; she only joined because Cho wanted her to. As with the majority of the magical community, Marietta fears hearing the name "Voldemort", as she shrieked aloud and slopped Butterbeer down her front.
Marietta's mother was a Ministry employee and as such, Marietta felt strong pressure to be on Dolores Umbridge's good side. Her apparent faithfulness to Cho Chang diminished when Cho forced her to join an illegal organization, and eventually betrayed Dumbledore's Army and having her fellow classmates (including Cho) who were in the organization almost expelled from school. Even if it meant that she would forsake a chance to learn more practical defense, especially the Patronus Charm that others were so eager to learn, Marietta chose her family's loyalty first. While Cho insisted that Marietta simply made a mistake, Harry Potter felt that Marietta was disgraceful and an unforgivable traitor, and Hermione commented that she was "stupid".
However, given the level of anti-Dumbledore propaganda she was likely to have received at home, combined with some fairly understandable anxieties at joining an "illegal" study group, Marietta should not entirely be blamed for her betrayal, a consideration that Cho heavily emphasized on, to which Harry rejected.
Despite her loyalty to the Ministry, she is still sensitive of her physical appearance, and when her face was horribly disfigured for her betrayal against Dumbledore's Army, she refused to uncover her face to testify verbally, leading to some setbacks for Umbridge and Fudge that ultimately gave Kingsley a chance to modify her memory.
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- ♦♦Marietta Edgecombe was a witch who was a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who started between 1990 and 1993. She was Sorted into Ravenclaw House and was the best friend of Cho Chang. In the 1995-1996 school year, at Cho's urging Marietta joined Dumbledore's Army, an organization taught and led by Harry Potter, despite being reluctant to get on Dolores Umbridge's bad side. When she became afraid that her mother's job at the Ministry of Magic might be threatened by her membership in the organization, Marietta betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge. This activated a jinx that caused boils to erupt on Marietta's face, and a Memory Charm was later placed on her by Kingsley Shacklebolt in order to prevent her from fully incriminating her fellow D.A. members.
