[HPforGrownups] OoP: Hermione and the DADA Prof

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"Eric Oppen" <oppen at mycns.net> wrote:

>>>>>Well, one thing we saw again in OoP was confirmation of something I've told my learned colleagues on here before:
Behind the quot;good girl, getting good gradesquot; facade, Hermione Granger has a steely streak that I, for one, would not want to mess with.nbsp; To put it bluntly, the girl's ruthless as all-get-out when she decides it's time to be.
Leading That Woman into the Forbidden Forest, after they'd been warned off
by the centaurs, took a lot of cold-blooded courage on Hermione's part (and
Harry's, but it was Hermione's idea from the beginning); the centaurs could
have had a quot;shoot first, ask questions laterquot; policy going on, and all three of them could have ended up looking like hedgehogs from the arrows sticking out of their bodies.nbsp; In situations like that, a quot;Sorry 'bout thatquot; is, to say the least, slightly inadequate.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the final showdown turning, at least in part, on Vmort underestimating Hermione's courage and single-minded
ruthlessness, whether it's because she's a Mudblood, er, Muggle-born, or
because she's a quot;mere slip of a girl.quot;nbsp; He's underestimated women before, and paid for it (remember Lily?) so dismissing Hermione on account of her gender would be nothing new for him.nbsp; The only kind of women he seems to have any time for are those who lick his boots, like Bellatrix.
Come to it...one of the admittedly farther-fetched theories I tossed out
pre-OOP was that Hermione would turn out to be Ever So Evil, and possibly
become the new Dark menace.nbsp; What she did to That Woman---on the one hand, we all applauded, we all knew that That Woman had it coming (and I do wonder_what_ the centaurs did to her?) but at the same time, she _did_ conspire to violate school rules in a spectacular fashion, and she _did_ knowingly lead That Woman into a situation where she could easily have ended up dead, dead, dead.nbsp; Like if Grawp had found them first.
She's also not one to be deterred from what she wants by mere facts (like
the fact that the house-elves find her attempts to stir them up and free
them offensive) or by her friends.nbsp; If her long-term goal is to be Ever So Evil and the new Dark Mistress of the wizard world, she's not done anything so far that would work against _that_ goal.nbsp; And she'd be a lot better menace than that nurd Vmort, too.>>>>>

  Paige Woods' Reply:
 
  I have a question. *If* Hermione *did* turn evil, who would she go after? I mean, I don't think she'd go all Voldy on us and kill people like her, would she? I don't like the thought of Hermione killing Muggle-borns and Harry/Ron/Ginny/Neville/Luna. 

  ~Paige Woods~