[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's Rude Comment

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 74733

I tried posting this earlier, but as it's been over an hour, and I've heard nothing from the elves, I'll try again.  Sorry if it ends up duplicated.

Dawn

From: severusbook4 
  > Sorry Dawn I didn't mean to offend.  <<snip>> 

  None taken! 

  <<snip>> Centaurs, if I remember correctly, do not want to be 
  aligned with humans but rather to be aligned with beasts, so 
  Hermione doesn't find Firenze, a centaur, as someone to be 
  romantically attracted to. Or am I the one completely off base on 
  this one? If I am, sorry, Hermione is one of my favorite characters 
  and I feel compelled to defend her. 
  > 
  ----

  You are right, given a choice between the two camps, centaurs chose not to be Human.  In that respect, Beasts are not animals, simply nonhuman.  I actually feel that in this scene Hermione is just a little thoughtless (or rather her comment is not properly thought out), and she makes the mistake of labling him an animal rather than as a Beast.  Later in the Forest, she says the wrong thing because she carrys on talking before her common sense catches up with her intellect - hardly a new trait! 

  Dawn 


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