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Marietta's mother is Madam Edgecombe, who helped Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge take control of Hogwarts. Madam Edgecombe works in the Floo Network Office, which is part of the Department of Magical Transportation in the Ministry of Magic, and she policed the Hogwarts fires, except for Umbridge's, to make sure that nobody in the school made contact with anyone the Ministry did not want them to have contact with.

As Cho had a romantic interest in Harry Potter, who was at the centre of the Ministry's smear campaign, this left Marietta in a very terrible position. Marietta joined Dumbledore's Army entirely because of peer pressure. Dumbledore's Army was doing the one thing the Ministry didn't want to happen, that was training students in combatViolence Combat is purposeful physical conflict involving violence. Combat is usually used to describe people's actions during warfare. However, the term can be used generically to describe any destructive conflict. Combat that is not part of warfare is j.

Eventually, Marietta betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge, however, the parchment that all members had signed had been jinxA jinx in popular superstition and folklore, is: A sort of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to large numbers of minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck; A person afflicted with a similar curse, who, while not directly subject to a serieed by HermioneHermione Jane Granger is a fictional character of the Harry Potter book series. She is a young female student at Hogwarts and, with Ron, one of Harry Potter's two best friends there. She is slightly bossy, and bookish. Her thirst for knowledge comes in us, so she broke out with pimpleA pimple is a type of skin lesion caused by inflamed and/or obstructed pores. The most common cause of pimples is acne, but other causes, such as smallpox, exist.s which spelled the word, "SNEAK". Umbridge took Marietta to testify aganist Harry, but Kingsley ShackleboltKingsley Shacklebolt is a member of the Order of the Phoenix in the Harry Potter series of books. He is a tall, black man who wears a golden ear ring and has a deep voice which Harry mentions several times as "calming". Kingsley Shacklebolt is an Auror wh swiftly modified her memoryFor computer memory, see computer storage. Memory is one of the activities of the human mind, much studied by cognitive psychology. It is the capacity to retain an impression of past experiences. There are multiple types of classifications for memory base, to keep Harry and his friends out of trouble.

This incident caused a rift in Harry and Cho's relationship. Harry blamed Marietta, though not Cho, for the results of her betrayal, but Cho insisted that was it hard for Marietta having a mother in the Ministry and blamed Hermione for jinxing the parchment. It is never explained what happened to Marietta after she betrayed the D.A.