Should Hermione "lighten up"?

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4912

Well, perhaps I identify with this as a percentage of people always 
tell me to "lighten up" and I now as an adult can say that it's not
in my nature to do so.

It got much easier as I got older..but when I was younger, no one
wanted to discuss the serious intense issues that I wanted to..

But these days, I can find plenty of people with whom to hang out...

Hermione is having fun. She goes to the ball. She has adventures with
Ron and Harry. But she loves to study and work and focus on 
knowledge...there seems to be a thread here that she shouldn't be
so intense about knowledge and grades, etc. Why shouldn't she?
Maybe she'll be an Einstein or a Madame Curie...or maybe she'll 
become obsessed with writing seven novels about something the way her 
creator is.....The obsessors and the driven and the geniuses and the 
geeks, and the crusaders (SPEW) and the  serious ones have a place in 
the world, even if they are not always
liked and admired by those who play quidditch, open joke shops, love 
to party, etc. 

Hermione is loved by her friend Harry, and both Ron and Viktor have 
an incipient romantic interest in her. She's doing real well, why 
should she change?

Susan