[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione and library books (was Hermione, Dobby . . . )

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 34908

In a message dated 08/02/02 16:23:35 GMT Standard Time, foxmoth at qnet.com 
writes:


> 
> --- 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.
> 
> 

Not only that, but she kept Moste Potente Potions out for the whole of the 
brewing of the Polyjuice potion (surprised one can keep a restricted book out 
for so long) *and* gets the page all splodged. Tut tut!

Eloise


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