Prefects

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 35209

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:

> Hermione is certainly a scholar, but I'm not at all convinced that
she's brilliant or 
> even especially intelligent.  She is extremely hard-working and
conscientious, 
> which is not the same thing.  If Harry or any of the others applied
themselves to 
> their work just as Hermione does, they'd get the same marks that she
does.  In 
> my experience, people who are truly brilliant or extremely
intelligent get top 
> marks despite doing LESS work than their classmates!

But Hermione's intelligence comes through in more than just her
academic work.  She is, for example, the only person who recognized
Lupin's boggart as the moon, and put it together with the other clues
to figure out that he's a werewolf.  She's the one who figured out the
basilisk in CoS, too.  Yes, that required looking things up in books,
but before that she had to put enough clues together to know where to
look.  As for her diligence in studying, I think it's more a sign of
her perfectionism than inability to get great marks without studying. 
Sure, she could coast and settle for a 97 on that Transfiguration
exam, but no, she's gotta get it *all* right, including the extra
credit.


Marina
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