Hermoine's unexpected aiding of Fred/George

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 77358


Margaret:

> > > Does anyone else find it very amusing that Hermione is the 
reason 
> > > Fred and George perfect one of their skiving snackboxes??? 
> > > 

ajlboston: 

> > YES, I thought of it at midnight and was planning on posting it 
> this 
> > morning!  How odd!  It is subtle humor when they say that Lee 
> tipped 
> > them off to the murtlap essence, after Harry had tipped him off 
to 
> > it, after Hermione had given it to Harry.  I wonder if she 
realized 
> > it...

Elle:

> One of the major themes of the interactions between Hermione and 
the 
> twins in OoP is Hermione's initial lack of respect for the skills 
and 
> talents of the twins, a view that seemed to soften a little by the 
> end of the book. 
> Hermione has a very rigid view of the world and has trouble 
accepting 
> that others genuinely may have different priorities.  For Hermione, 
> the world revolves around books, tests, grades and academic 
honors.  
> When Fred and George scoff at Ron for becoming a prefect, she 
thinks 
> that they are jealous (Ron knows that they are *not*.)  She makes 
> disparaging remarks about the type of magical knowledge that the 
> twins have when they are demonstrating the snackboxes in the common 
> room (saying that they only know "flashy" stuff, not about anything 
> really useful.) But she is wrong, I think.  The twins are *very* 
> bright and the type of practical magic at which they excel likely 
> will serve them very well in life.  Being the most successful test-
> taker in school does not always translate into being the most 
> successful person in post-school life.  (The latter is *not* sour 
> grapes, I am a Hermione-like test-taker myself! :->  )
> By the end of OoP, Hermione is less dismissive of Fred and George's 
> magical abilities (and is even somewhat impressed by the vanishing 
> charm that they use with their joke hats!)  She still does not 
> approve of their early exit from school or their lack of concern 
> about their exams.  I suspect that there may be more development of 
> these issues in the last two books.  



Margaret (me) again:

I hope so!  Fred and George are my personal favorite charcters, I 
desperately hope them leaving school does not translate into 
dissappearing from Harry's radar (since his perspective is all we 
have) I've always thought Hermione was far too dismissive of their 
magical talent, I've always thought knowing how to actually do what 
ever it is they're teaching you is more important than proving you 
can do it (although I too am a Hermione like test taker ;-) so their 
less than overwhelming success on their O.W.L.s is not nessecarrily a 
bad thing. 

 Active defense seems like it could be right up their alley, I have 
no doubt now that they are out of school they will be joining the 
Order (my hopes for their continued presence are not dashed yet!) 
maybe they can cross the Headless Hats with the Extendable Ears and 
start doing surveillence.  I reallyreallyreally hope neither of them 
is the Weasley Rowling supposedly said was going to die (I can't be 
the only one who hopes it's Percy).  

~Margaret

P.s. I don't remember what post it was in but someone asked why no 
one ever says 'George and Fred'. There is defenite merit to the 
Fred's older theory, but if it is that, there has to be some reason 
Rowling made Fred older (knowning she'd be saying 'Fred and George' a 
LOT).  I've been thinking about it, and I think it's because it is 
awkward to follow a word that ends with a vowel sound with one that 
starts with a vowel sound. If you have poor enunciation, it comes out 
(in this instance) sounding like 'Georgeanne' which I'm sure no one 
wants, it's bad enough to be called by a wrong name of the same 
gender. With F&G you get the nice crisp 'd' sound before 'and'.  Just 
had to get that out of my head ;-)