Dark Hermione (Re: Ron & Hermione - Birds of a Feather)

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 16453

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
"Yes, Hermione's desire for academic success is her buggaboo.  It is 
a well-known vulnerability/weakness and could be used against her by 
the dark side.  But, I agree completely with Kristin who argued that 
Hermione thinks things through more clearly & logically than Ron 
does.  Note: I'm not saying that Hermione is more intelligent than
Ron and therefore less likely to be a victim of the Dark Side.  I'm
saying she's a logical cool-headed thinker for the most part; and Ron
is, for the most part, not.  She's *less* likely to fall prey to the
Dark Side for that reason (not because her insecurities are any less
known or less problematic than Ron's are).  As Kristin said, Ron has a
vulnerability in his desire for money & his ambitions .... but what
makes him most vulnerable to being an unwilling pawn is his
vulnerabilities *coupled with* his impulsiveness, temper and tendency 
to make off-the-cuff emotional decisions.  IMO of course."

Again, all this talk about Dark Hermione possibilities is quite 
intriguing.

What would be the motivation for Hermione not to go bad?  Here's a 
few off the top of my head:
1)  She's Muggle-born.  There just aren't too many Jewish Nazis or 
black KKK members.  Sorry.
2)  She still retains some awe for authority figures.
3)  She's been the conscience of the Three for the past 3 1/2 books.

Feel free to add more.

All right, why *would* Hermione go bad?  I'm not talking about going 
undercover... I'm talking genuinely becoming an evil character.  One 
must allow that if there is a possibility for Draco redemption, there 
is also a chance of Hermione vilification.

So what scenarios can *you* come up with in which she would do this?

:::crickets chirp:::

Didn't think so.

--Ebony AKA AngieJ  (who has said "Honestly!" at least ten times this 
evening while reading posts about Hermione's supposed OCD--for a 
great fiction read about *real* OCD, Orson Scott Card's *Xenocide* 
comes to mind)