Hermione's Rude Comment

[watsola79]

No: HPFGUIDX 74719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Trish" 
<caitybugcreations at h...> wrote:
> Could her comment have more to do with her dislike of things 
> proclaiming to see the future? It seems that JKR is going a little 
> out of her way to show Hermione as having no respect for Divination 
> in general. Could it be her insistence to find everything in a 
book? 
> Does she believe that the future can not be prophesized? Did she 
hear 
> a prophesy that she does not want to believe or is afraid to 
believe? 
> Does her muggle background make her believe that you must find 
> answers not from fortune tellers? Why is she so accepting of other 
> forms of magic, if fact every other form accept this one? Can you 
> link this to her insistence that everything Luna talks about is not 
> FACT but FABLE? She really has no patience for that either, does 
she? 
> I honestly think that there is less to the racism theory and more 
to 
> the idea that she has no patience for this type of magic. It could 
be 
> read, I guess that she has no patience for Lavender and Parvati but 
I 
> always read it this way. I would also like to know ......why?
> 
> Trish. Who is trying to get the hang of this whilst the two little 
> ones pull on her shirt.

I think she DOES change her point of view regarding the value of 
Divination...in the end of OOP, she answers Ron's comment with (sorry 
for paraphrasing) "How can you say that?  After we've just found out 
that Prophecies are real?"  It was in the battle that the prophecy 
became a *fact* for her, even though she did not reach that 
conclusion from something she read in a book.  However, her newfound 
respect for that branch of magic undoubtedly did nothing to alter her 
feelings about Firenze or Trelawney.  

--Lana Lovegood