The Bull's Eye on Hermione's Back (WAS Doomed, they're doomed! [)

[amberhillcrest]

No: HPFGUIDX 46184

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Miller" <smiller_92407 at y...> wrote:
> Cindy C. wrote
> 
> <snippage while I get to my nit-picky issue ... >
> 
> "She hasn't been shown to fly."
> 
> Me (Susan):
> 
> Um, don't I remember that she (and Ron, along with Harry) mounted 
> brooms in the flying key sequence of Book 1? I remember being 
> impressed when I read it because there had been no discussion of how 
> she learned.
> 
> ~Constance Vigilance

But where would she have learned to fly?  In SS, the only flying lesson is the one in which Neville gets hurt and Harry is caught flying and made the new Seeker.  After that, there are no more flying lessons.  Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is the only flying lesson in the whole series (and it is interrupted, no less!)  Ron knows how to fly because he plays pick-up games of Quidditch with his brothers, but Hermione does not appear interested in athletic pursuits.  It seems rather incredulous that Hermione would instinctively know how to fly even if she was feeling a burst of adrenaline when she flies in SS.  

-Maureen Amber