In defense of Ron

[Brian]

No: HPFGUIDX 4893

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<pennylin at s...> wrote:
>You've said several times before that Hermione is a braggart . . .
>obnoxious . . . what have you.  In each case, I've asked you for
>references proving Hermione brags about her intellectual 
>accomplishments or "shows off." 

First off I would say that I lean toward the R/H side of the argument 
(that is if any of the triad end up together at all).  My only reason 
for this is a gut feeling based on the characters personalities.  Ok, 
now that that's out of the way ... Since I haven't seen anyone else 
give examples for the "Hermione's an obnoxious braggart" issue, I 
would like to bring up her statement that she got something like 112% 
on Flitwick's test and her following statement "they're not going to 
throw *me* out after that!".  I think the fact that she scored so 
high would not effect any decision to expel her if the circumstances 
called for it so the statement must have been simply to let someone 
know exactly how good she did.  Now, I don't have a problem with 
Hermione.  I was very much like her in Jr. High and High School but I 
learned after a time to keep any successes to myself ... something I 
think Hermione has figured out by book 4 where she showed a great 
deal more maturity as compared to the scabbers incident in book 3.