[HPforGrownups] Re: Why did Hermione lie?

[Torsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 51518

Errol:
>but that's beside the point. She needn't have been in the bathroom 
>for very long - she could have left in the middle of the meal, just 
>before the alarm was raised.

No matter if she supposedly had been in the Hall or on her way to the Gryffindor 
common room, the toilet she was in wasn't the closest. Going to a far away one can't be 
explained by a real need or by the real state she was in.

>I don't think her reason for  crying had to come out at all, nor do I 
>understand why it would be a major reason to get into trouble with 
>McGonagall. And she could have been crying because she was homesick 
>or something.Besides, the boys didn't taunt her. She just over heard 
>a nasty comment by Ron.

Again, she neither had the time nor was in the perfect state of mind to think up a very 
good lie. And maybe she just didn't want to admit one nasty comment is enough to 
make her cry. Being overconfident in her magical abilities is fault she might consider 
more suiting to herself. ^_~

>There was a panicked crowd in the corridors - the Prefects, I 
>believe, had their work cut out for them. And the teachers had gone 
>after the troll, right? So getting hold of a person in authority 
>would have been difficult just then - McGonagall understood that when 
>Hermione pointed out that the boys didn't have time to get anyone 
>else.

Well, the boys worried enough to go and find her, but not enough to yell "Percy, 
Hermione's in danger!" to get the help of someone more able to confront a troll? 
Doesn't really fit in Hermione's "I was dumb and they were brave" lie, since the boys 
were just as dumb.

> but Harry and Ron feel this sense of 
>having done something very wrong as well. They never indicate that 
>her spur of the moment lie was a relatively bad one!

It worked well enoug, so why worry? Worrying about something like this is for fans 
desperate to keep their mind's busy because it's still that long till the next book is 
released... ^_~

-Torsten