Hermione's age again!; Movie review

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28258

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Amy Z wrote:

> > ??  We knew her birthday, or near enough, in PoA.  I wasn't 
around for
> > the thrilling between-time (there was no between-time for me, 
just a
> > brief coming up for air before diving into GoF <g>), but I would 
have
> > thought that knowing she was born in September would be enough to 
make
> > people consider the possibilities of her being born either year.  
No
> > one wondered?

Just a quick thought - "thrilling"? I wasn't into HP online back 
then - but I did read the first two about eight months before POA 
came out. I think you had the better of it personally - would have 
been nice not to have waiting however many months it is now for all 
the books.


> I'm going to pick up a bit on what David Frankis said the other day 
in 
> his brilliant post about how our subconscious forms solid opinions 
about 
> various things as we read. 

I also thought that it was a very good post - and think it does apply 
quite strongly here. I hate to be so close minded - but I think the 
easisest and most logical way to look at things (I probably only 
think because its what I assumed but still...) - is '79. I'm not 
saying its the right answer - but I would need a reason to specially 
think it was more likely to be '80, if you get me. 

>I had somehow already formed the opinion 
> that she would not be 10 mths older than him.  Why this is I cannot 
say. 

I have to say that I find it strange that people form opinions on 
intution on small stuff like this. I personally had no definite idea 
in my head - if I had been asked before we knew her birthday, I 
probably would have gone the '80 route. Why? No idea. It wasn't a 
strong enough instinct to survive when we knew her birthday though.

>Would Hermione have gone 
> through her entire last year of primary school knowing she was 
going to 
> Hogwarts the next year (assuming a 1979 birthday)?  My guess is no -
- 
> they wouldn't want the muggle-borns to have that knowledge for 
*that* 
> long, would they?  My guess is there would need to be a balance 
between 
> giving the muggle-borns enough notice to persuade their families & 
> adjust to the idea and not giving the muggle-borns the knowledge 
for too 
> long (although I suppose they could memory charm them if the kid 
seemed 
> likely to spill the beans to all the muggles at his primary school).

I'm convinced that the letter can't be the only thing happens for the 
muggles. Their parents would have to be met and gradually introduced 
to the idea, and so on. I don't see that big of a reason not to tell 
the kids - they're going to have to be trusted later anyway, and 
who's going to believe them? 
Then again, I've also recently got quite fond of the idea that 
Hermione know about her witchhood for a while - I can just see her 
getting more and more nervous, and studying more and more, as the 
date drew near.

On the subject of the movie review - I don't know, I wasn't very 
convinced at first because it was so positive. Surely they could find 
something wrong with it?

Recently though I trust it more - it was referenced by Ain't It Cool 
News at http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=10597 - a site, which 
although not always reliable for rumours, don't seem to be that bad 
for movie reviews. Harry Knowles (who runs the site) also said 
that, "Just yesterday I talked to a booker in the industry that saw 
the film and said that it was fantastic and was a cash cow. And the 
review that these guys have written seem to confirm all the 
enthusiasm that the booker told me. "

Jon, who is rather late for doing all this but never mind, canon no-
ship but R/H would make more sense (if *that* makes sense), would be 
member of P.I.N.E but holding out for someone to create a group 
saying that all the Weasleys in general - although especially Ron - 
weren't evil (but for grammar and all, T.W.I.N.E, would be fairly 
convenient), thinks O.B.H.W.F is too saccharine in some ways but nice 
in others, that Hermione was born in '79 until we're told otherwise, 
that Draco is 'good' too much in fanfic but stll likes the good Draco 
character, and that, he in general, is rather confused.