[HPforGrownups] Re: In Defense of Hermione

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26611



--- cassandraclaire at mail.com wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch <>
> >    I believe Hermione is guilty of projecting
> human
> > needs and aspirations on non-humans. Maybe
> House-elves
> > are brainwashed, or maybe they really do have very
> > different emotional needs. I suggest Hermione find
> out
> > which it is before she starts her crusade.
> 
> 
> *blinks.* Perhaps she is that, but she is young, and
> idealistic. 
> Whether or not she approaches her crusade from the
> correct angle, her 
> impulses are born out of empathy and a good heart.

   I grew up in 1960s California. In my childhood I
saw enough misguided 'idealism' to turn anybody into a
confirmed cynic.

> R: I agree she's a bit insecure, what eleven year
> old
> > wouldn't be going off to a totally unknown
> enviroment
> > for the first time? But being a know-it-all is not
> the
> > way to gain friends and one would think she'd know
> > that.
> 
> I don't see why the poor kid would know that --
> she's only eleven, 
> and hasn't mastered social skills. Many of us were
> like that once. 

    It's been a while since I was eleven. I clearly
recall realizing at some stage of my remote youth
being a show-off know-it-all is *not* the way to win
friends but it may have been at a more advanced age. 
   
> Ebony: "The wrong best friend mooning over her
> (Hermione)"
> R: "'Wrong best friend'? who says Hermione wants
> Harry"
> 
> Ah, somebody who doesn't know that Ebony is the
> co-captain of the SS 
> H/H along with Penny? *ducks* Right-O, no ship
> discussions.

   No I didn't know that! Personally I can't really
see Hermione and Harry as a couple, Ron maybe but not
Harry.
 
> R"or Ron either for that matter"
> 
> Now there I'm in agreement.

    Boys one has been best friends with for years
often have much less sex-appeal than a relative
stranger. 
   Hermione is definitely too young to pick out a
permanent partner but she's old enough to start
looking around and learning what she wants in a man.
   Krum is attractive enough and sincere enough to
warrant serious consideration.
   Harry has courage, honor and a nice nature but is
still fairly immature in the girl area, (maybe next
year).  He is definitely not jealous. If Hermione
wants Krum that's fine with him.
   Ron certainly *is* jealous but whether from
burgeoning romantic interest or simply a sort of
brotherly possessiveness is uncertain. 
  Whether or not Hermione is attracted to either of
her friends she definitely wants them to recognize she
is a girl and not go on treating her like one of the guys.

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