[HPforGrownups]Social skills (WAS: Hermione's attitudes, age, and SHIP/s...)

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 29891


 
  monicawitt at msn.com wrote: 
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>As is often the case with children who posess intellectual gifts 
>beyond their years, they're often very clumsy in the social realm. I 
>don't think anyone here needs me to go into examples for how socially 
>inept Hermione can be. It struck me as interesting when, in GoF, she 
>changes her appearance for the ball. She could use the hair potion 
>every day (it would certainly be in keeping with the hair-practices 
>of a large number of girls I went to school with...there must be 
>Hogwars equivalents to them that get up at the crack of dawn just to 
>do their hair)... but Hermione doesn't find that sort of thing 
>important enough to do every day. Social opinions and correctness 
>don't concern her. 

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IMO, it is also very important that Hermione is an only child. And as I've yet to see a poor dentist, we can also suppose that the family is very well off. If the Grangers are a bit like my own parents, maybe they didn't even send their precious and highly intelligent only daughter to a kindergarten, but hired a nanny instead. Hermione strikes me as the sort of child who has spent her early childhood exclusively in the company of adults, and in elementary school was incredibly bored by her peers. That would account for being bossy and for saying things like "Do you NEVER read?"- I suppose she spent a lot of her free time at home reading whatever she could get into her hands.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37

 
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