Hermione: Learning (Was: Panic Attacks & Tears?); Divination

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 38973

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
 
> 
> The same is true of Hermione's vigilante action against Rita 
> Skeeter. OTOH, Real!Moody goes out of his way to bring dark 
> wizards in alive. He  turns them in even though he knows he 
> can't always trust the wizarding justice system to deal with them 
> as he thinks it should. Compare that to the way Hermione deals 
> with Rita, holding her captive on no authority but her own.
> 
> [Penny mentioned that Ron was being left behind by Hermione 
> and Harry in DADA:]
> 
> I think Ron and Hermione are both getting left behind by Harry, 
> who, according to JKR, has now surpassed Hermione at DADA 
> and would beat her in a duel.  Ron did win his bout with Seamus 
> Finnegan  at the dueling club broken wand and all, in contrast to 
> Hermione who got into a wrestling match with Miss Bulstrode, 
> having once again, it seems, forgotten that she is a witch. <g>
> 
> I'd personally rather see Hermione with the Department of 
> Mysteries--she could exercise her talent for investigation and  
> her penchant for secrecy as well. 
 
Yes - well, Ron's *intuition* and familiarity with wizarding world, 
Hermione's research abilities and Harry's extraordinary abilities in 
throwing out Imperious Curse work well together.

What Hermione's auror-potential is- is in *finding out*, noticing 
things and drawing conclusions. Like the *basilisk* - though the 
critical information came from Harry's parsel-tongue, she's the one 
who put things together. It's just her need to *consult a book* that 
gets into her way, usually. She needs to advance into modern 
Empirism - she's still in the mathematical logic/authority-believer.

House-elves are getting her there... No books. She's giving nil to 
both Hagrid's and Ron's *empiric* information as *prejudice*, and 
even House-elves themselves *brain-washed*! She definately has lots 
to learn. She's not of the WW - books won't help her, Logic is of no 
use, she refuses to listen... She's seen unfair treatmeant. We have 
yet to see where this leads, but I believe the house-elf situation is 
giving Hermione a lesson: Books, logic and authorities aren't 
everything.

Divination

I think it's more of a way Harry and Ron find things about themselves 
and learn self-acceptance. It's a lesson turned *inwards* - very 
unlike everything else they learn. It's no co-incidence, IMO, that 
Divination comes to play in the same book with Dementors (worst 
experiences), Boggarts (worst fears), Harry leaving Dursleys on a 
self-based method, coming to realise how much he really *needs* a 
parent, meeting his father's friends, learning a Patronus (based on a 
Happy thought)-- Harry's learning a lot about *himself*. Harry has 
trouble accepting that he's not like others; He needed to accept 
being orphan. He *has*, which enables hime to summon the Patronus 
saving Sirius. In GoF, when Harry meets the Dementor/Boggart in the 
maze, he handles it with *ease*. Or as Dumbledore put it - found his 
father inside himself.

Ron, OTOH has serious acceptance-problems about his poverty. Thus he 
can't accept "charity" - like the Omniculars...

Remember what Sibyl was praising them of? *Accepting* their mortality.
Now that's the *real* lesson of her constantly "foretelling" death. 
Picking up *Harry Potter*, the one who *survived* the *Killing* Curse 
as the one should be very effective in this. If *Harry* is to die, 
certainly the rest are, too.

Hermione & McGonagall just can't see the value of knowing oneself and 
the *subtle* way it is handled. That's the *Sight*, the Inner Eye. 
They can't feel what Divination really is-- They're far too 
*concious* about things - but Divination deals with Subconcious. It's 
Important Lesson. Maybe Harry's Divination lessons helped him deal 
with Moody's Imperius? It comes from *within*, and such things are 
not something you learn from a book - but maybe something you *do* 
learn in Divination.

-- Finwitch