[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville's Wand (Was: OWLs & future Aurors)

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 75339


> Also, Luna
> doesn't appear to have over-achieving analytical intelligence (even
> though she skyrockets in the right brain category), and she is in
> Ravenclaw.  
>
> ariadne

Just add a good memory, eager to knowledge, easy to understand and repeating. 
You don't need to have over-achieving analytical intelligence not to need 
studying. I don't claim to be a genius, but 

> I said something about H. to a very intelligent and academically 
> accomplished acquaintance, who replied that they were Not like 
> Hermione because as a child, they never had to study.

I studied a little. 12 hours for the whole latin year, at 15.  

Irene:
<<What you describe is a student who does exactly the amount he is 
required to, who will read exactly to the page the teacher said and not 
a sentence more. That should not take too much time with a bit of brain,
true, but that's nothing to do with Hermione.>>
 
Don't think so. I was 10 on all the works (keep with latin), because I took 
the time to go to the library and read, I loved reading mithology, poetry, 
science essays, threatre, foreign authors. I liked sciences also, loved 
physics as my teacher made me think hours sometimes. 

I loved to learn. But I bored half the time. I only needed half the class to 
take notes, memorice and understand. I hated being always the one who was 
expected to come with the right answers. Works didn't take all the time, 
also.

Hey, last year I read the whole genetics text for Biology College, Murcia, 
Spain (wich you can find has international reputation, the College, not the 
text), because I keep liking biology and had a holiday week. I'm a sort of 
computer-work, and no one outstanding, but I did far away it was required (as 
chosing to read 700 pages books in English instead of the 30 pages 
summaries). And I had a lot of time free. I'll be glad to be a Ravenclaw.

silmariel