Hermione's rude comment

[leb2323]

No: HPFGUIDX 75554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feetmadeofclay" 
<feetmadeofclay at y...> wrote:

> We get no indication that Hermione is wrong for this comment.  She 
> doesn't learn from it and all we get is the shocked reaction from 
> Lavendar or Parvati (do they even have separate personalities 
> anymore?) But really for their to be a moral point ot this comment 
> Rowling needs to take it and bring it back to us with some sort of 
> reaction that affects the reader or Hermione to show it is wrong.  
> She really never does this.  There is no action/reaction in the
text 
> to suggest a moral point to this line.  Or at least I don't think 
> there is.
> 
> Golly.

I think the lesson for Hermione came when she lured Umbridge into the 
forest with the express intent of having the Centaurs "take care" of 
Umbridge for her.  She endangered her own and Harry's lives by 
underestimating the Centaurs in her attempt at manipulating them
which they saw through.  She *knew* that Umbridge would offend them 
because of her reaction to "half-breeds" but did not realize that she 
was guilty as well, just not as overtly, as indicated in her 
conversation with Ronan (pg 756 US).  Harry notes that in her
attempts to explain herself "she seemed to be going from bad to 
worse".  The Centaurs had already begun to carry them off "to pay the
consequences" when Grawp arrived to save them.  I think that not only 
did she learn from that incident but that she was somewhat humbled by 
it as well.

leb