[HPforGrownups] Why did Hermione lie?

[Torsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 51509

Errol:
>*What* trouble?? As far as I can see, they did nothing wrong. They 
>did go and save her when there was no time to get anyone else. The 
>only thing that Hermione lied about was *her* reason for being there. 
>She was crying and missed dinner. Surely that was better than saying 
>she went after the troll herself?
>
>Perhaps they were so new that they didn't realize that missing a
>meal was not a major transgression. Still that's *Hermione* in
>trouble not the boys. Hermione could just have said that she'd
>been in the bathroom, (no need to mention she'd been crying), and
>hadn't heard the announcement (true), and that the boys had come
>to 
>get her(all the same as before). 

The students were supposed to be in their common rooms or on the way to it, without 
taking the time for a trip to the toilet, and it would be quite unbelievable she had been 
in the toilet since before the school heard of the troll - that would be too long a 
believable toilet visit, even for a girl.

Keep in mind she didn't have the time to think up a very good explanation, so she went 
with what came to her mind first. She expected the teachers to ask why she'd been 
crying if she mentioned it, which would lead to Harry and Ron possibly getting in 
trouble for taunting her, and not causing trouble for them is what her whole behaviour 
is about at this moment.

Why no one wondered why the boys didn't tell one of the prefects leading them to the 
common room is another matter ...

-Torsten