Emma's portrayal of Hermione/Screen writing (Was Emma's attitude)

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>Hollydaze wrote:
> > there is a scene (that was cut from the film) were Harry and 
Hermione 
> > (Dan and Emma - she didn't say about Rupert) go along a line of 
> > people shaking their hands (she was in the line) Dan was fine 
with 
> > this but apparently Emma had a very "I'm better than you" 
attitude 
> > and was hardly touching people's hands at all, you know the kind 
of 
> > just touching figer tips as though they ahd dirty hands or 
something. 

Joanne0012 at a... wrote: 
> But, um, Emma was being Hermione at the time!  The  half-hearted 
type of 
> handshake is indeed the sort of thing Hermione would do.  

No, I don't think Hermione would do this kind of thing. Besides being 
know-it-all, Hermione is actually very caring (think how she treats 
Neville) and passionate (hug Harry at the end of SS, slap Malfoy in 
PoA and burst into tears when Harry and Ron apologize to each other 
in GoF). I don't think we could use this case against Emma's attitude 
either, but it did make me think about her portrayal of Hermione. 
Yes, she is very cute and charming on big screen. She also portrays a 
know-it-all Hermione very well, but, she tends to overact Hermione's 
snobbishness while downplay her kindness. 
On second thought, maybe I should blame Kloves for this. Although he 
gave us a very faithful (plot-wise) adaption, I can't help noticing 
he tends to stereotype those characters. For example, I don't know 
why he didn't give Harry the line "I don't know, why don't you ask 
Hermione" in the potions lesson; or why he let Hagrid tell 
Harry "your cousin don't know you're not allowed to use magic". He 
made Harry too perfect while use Ron mostly as comic relief and 
Hermione as Ms. Know-it-all. Hope he did better for the 2nd movie.