[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's rude comment
The Crashing Boar
crashing.boar at ntlworld.com
Fri Aug 1 18:00:56 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 74799
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.
>
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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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