Hermione and library books (was Hermione, Dobby . . . )

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 34892

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kim Heikkinen <catlover at n...> wrote:
> Whirdy wrote:
> 
> >1.  Why were there no repercussions when Hermione tore a 
page out of an old
> >book in the CoS.
> 
> I would like to know the answer to this, too. (I'm a librarian and 
the 
> thought makes me shudder.) Hermione does NOT strike me 
as the sort who'd 
> purposely deface a library book; look at how she observes 
other rules.
> 
> </me slaps JKR on the wrist for that bit of wrongness>

No, of course Hermione would NEVER commit such a heinous 
act. 

<speculation>
It must have been Tom Riddle who tore the page out, 50 years 
before. Hermione found it in a dusty old stack of loose leaves 
marked "to be repaired". Writing "pipes" on the page was a 
desperate last ditch act committed in the last few heart stopping 
moments, while Penelope fumbled desperately for her mirror 
and the hissing sound drew closer, closer....</speculation>

Pippin, who will forgive Hermione for writing on a page that didn't 
belong to her only  if Hermione was being menaced by a twenty 
foot bloodthirsty snake at the time.