Hermione's Magical Power

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55595

 "Laura" wrote:
> 
> Just how powerful *is* Hermione?  I know she's an excellent witch, 
> but as far as I can tell, there isn't much canon to support that 
> she's incredibly magically powerful.  She studies all the time and 
> probably knows about 10 times more spells than Harry and Ron put 
> together, but does that necessarily mean she's very powerful?
> 
> There are a lot of references in canon to her study habits, her 
> intelligence, and so on...but as far as I can tell there's not much 
> to support her being an incredibly powerful witch.  Not to say that 
> she's a bad witch, but intelligence does not equal power.
> 
> Thoughts?

Well - she's excellent at learning from books. If a spell - like 
riddiculus - requires something you just can't learn from books, she 
fails. She's skilled and has a variety of spells, but Powerful... I 
don't really know.

Harry has several abilities only few wizards can do - and if he did 
as much study as Hermione or had her learning abilities, he'd be able 
to do more than anyone.
However, power...

I suppose one way is to compare spell-castings... Such as 
*expelliarmus* - Harry's spell was powerful enough to knock Snape out 
in PoA. Sometimes that spell only disarms, but knock out? That's 
extra power.

And Hermione might control her power, only use what needed...

-- Finwitch