Hermione's Greatest Fear

[Derek Hiemforth]

No: HPFGUIDX 87426

pippin wrote:
> Could Lupin be a Legilimens?
(snip)
> If  so, Lupin could have read Hermione's fear when he told the 
> class to think of the thing that scares them most.  He might
> have decided that unlike Snape, McGonagall didn't deserve to
> be ridiculed--or maybe he didn't dare to cross her.

Derek:
He may also have been aware that Hermione was already 
thought of as abnormally eggheaded, and been concerned that if 
her fear of failing classes was revealed, she'd be even more 
ridiculed.

- Derek