lawful Hermione was Could Hermione Fight the Imperius Curse?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:
> > > The other thing to note about Hermione is she is very lawful, as 
> > > well as ethical.  This lawfulness makes her naturally obedient.   
> 
> I have to disgree with this.  She starts off this way, but very 
> quickly becomes "corrupted" by Ron and Harry.  She becomes a creature 
> of expedience, able to rationalize a number of infractions of the 
> rules with aplomb.

Most of Barb's points are good, but I have to speak up for Hermione on 
a couple of them.

> In CoS she makes Polyjuice Potion (the recipe for which came from a 
> book in the Restricted Section of the library).  

She obtained the book quite legally, under Lockhart's signature. He was 
a twit for giving it to her, but she didn't break any rules to get it.

.  She also 
> doesn't go to an authority figure immediately upon figuring 
> everything out, and instead gets herself and Penelope Clearwater 
> petrified.
> 

Penelope Clearwater *is* an authority figure. She's  a *prefect*. 
Hermione was doing exactly what she should have done, too bad the 
basilisk caught up with them before Penelope could get her to a 
teacher. We don't know that Hermione is the one who tore the book 
either...I've always imagined it was Riddle who did that, long ago, to 
cover his tracks, and that Hermione found the page in a dusty pile of 
items to be repaired.


  She uses the Time Turner 
> to go to multiple classes simultaneously, which isn't fair to the 
> other students,
	We don't know that other students couldn't use a time turner if 
they requested it. Hermione was probably desperate to catch up after 
spending half of last year petrified. It was dangerous for her, but 
surely no more dangerous than letting Harry play Quidditch. 


> In GoF the worst thing she does, IIRC, is she helps Harry with his 
> tournament tasks, but she does this all through the book, even though 
> he's supposed to do this himself.  
	There's an odd point here, IIRC, Dumbledore only says that the 
contestants can't get help from a *teacher*...Harry and Hermione 
interpret that as not getting help from *anyone*, "it's in the rules", 
but is it? In any case, what Hermione helps him to do is things like 
practicing charms and looking up things in the library. That can't be 
against the rules. She's not as strictly rule-abiding as Percy, but I 
don't think she's as comfortable breaking rules as, say, Fred and 
George. 
	
Pippin