[HPforGrownups] Hermione's rude comment

[Charlie Moody]

No: HPFGUIDX 74817

Here's my take:

This is Hermione being totally clueless:  In order to make a remark 
like that, she has to be totally ignorant about Centaurs (or should I 
say, the 'hippocenely-augmented'?), right?  But *how* can Hermione BE 
that clueless about anything?  Well, she's only 15 - she can't have 
memorised everything yet, can she?

Still, it explains how Hermione - of all people! - could ignorantly 
insult the Centaurs into a frenzy...convenient timing, too....