Hermione: Panic Attacks & Tears? (Was Hermione as mirror of Snape)

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 38945

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> Hermione is panic stricken in GoF when she's struck by Draco's 
> misplaced curse and her eyes fill with tears after Snape's nasty  
> crack. I know, I know, she's only 14 but she's still going to have 
> to do better than that if she wants to be an Auror. 
> 
> BTW, Ron should get credit for keeping a cool head in 
> emergencies. Even when terrifed by Aragog, he's still functional 
> enough to rescue Fang in CoS. He's also willing to take damage 
> points, which Harry thinks must be an important part of the Auror 
> job. <g>

Thanks for making that point.  I'm rather weary of folks pointing 
out that Crouch, while pretending to be Moody, didn't think Ron 
would make a good Auror.  I think we have to remember that a) he 
simply didn't SAY Ron would make a good Auror; and b) he had 
ulterior motives for everything he said/did (such as being nice to 
Neville and giving him the book on water plants).

So--consider the (possible) ulterior motives for his telling Harry 
and Hermione they'd make good Aurors (not that they wouldn't) and 
not telling Ron (when it seems he would make a very good Auror for 
the reasons Pippin cited).  

Telling Hermione she'd make a good Auror--It's possible that he 
doesn't really believe this.  I suspect he may see her emotional 
side as a weakness.  A good Death Eater wants to encourage people to 
be Aurors whom he thinks he could beat.  (He's very likely wrong, 
but that's another story.)

Telling Harry--Crouch wants to build him up and give him the 
confidence to win the Tournament.  He may also be convinced he could 
beat Harry and that Harry would not make a good Auror, but more 
importantly he doesn't think of Harry as a threat because he expects 
Voldemort to kill him as soon as Crouch delivers him, so the Auror 
question is moot.

Not telling Ron--This may be a clue that Crouch thinks Ron is the 
most dangerous of the three.  Why would he want to encourage someone 
he thinks is good to be an Auror?  Plus, by telling two of them and 
not the third, he fosters a neat little rift in the Trio.  (Short-
lived, but he underestimates the three of them many times.)
 
There may be more possible motivations I haven't thought of, but I 
really don't think we should be taking anything Crouch said when he 
wasn't under Veritaserum at face value--all of it is highly suspect.

--Barb

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