Who's going to betray the Order?

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 76890

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> a_reader2003 wrote:
> > 
> > CW: I'd put my money on Hermione. She wouldn't do it on purpose, 
but 
> > it would be a repeat of the broomstick episode. She'd think she 
was 
> > doing something for the best, but then screw up big time. 
> 
> Hermione did not "screw up big time" in the broomstick.  She was 
> 100% correct to be suspicious of it, and McGonagall agreed.  That 
> it turned out to be harmless does not mean that the suspicions 
> were unjustified on the evidence available to her at the time.
> 
> > I think she 
> > shows so much reluctance to go along with his various dangerous 
> > sounding schemes, that there's going to be one time too many, and 
she 
> > makes the wrong decision, supposedly for his own good, and 
provokes 
> > disaster. 
> 
> Harry's schemes are not just dangerous-sounding, they are 
> dangerous.  His using the fireplace in Umbridge's office to talk 
> to Sirius the first time, just so he could feel better about his 
> father, was incredibly stupid.  His insistence on "rescuing" 
> Sirius, despite many warnings that it was a ruse, did provoke 
> disaster.  It is Harry, not Hermione, who repeatedly makes the 
> wrong decisions.

CW replies:

My point in the post (75897)was essentially about the interplay of 
the two types of emotional temperament, and its potential for 
disaster. Of course the tiresome girl is always right, and hot-headed 
Harry always does the first thing that comes into his head, stampedes 
in all directions and gets himself and everyone else into trouble. In 
this, he and Sirius are pretty similar, and they irritate most of the 
females around them, who prefer the attractions of cool logic and 
doing what's right and best (yawn, some pretty stereotypic stuff here 
about the intrinsic natures of men and women). 

But I think the conclusion of OotP, and Harry surviving Voldemort's 
possession is generally in favour of Harry's temperament being the 
winner at the end of the day. I'm afraid I can just see Hermione 
taking a principled decision on something that just turns out to be a 
big mistake plot-wise. Of course she will be utterly mortified and 
possibly even die in her attempts to put things right (hope, hope), 
but I still think it could happen. 

I even think the plot twist might fulfil a morbid amusement in JKR, 
who supposedly has based Hermione on her younger self, whom she has 
described as 'swotty'. Maybe she'd like to point up the shortcomings 
of that particular approach to life ?