OOP: Boys & Girls in the Potter World

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 67164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> So Ladies, how about Hermione and Cho? Did JKR capture the essense 
of
> the teenage girl for you?
> 

I thought Cho was fine, being a bundle of emotions, still dealing 
with Cedric and having that attitude that some teenage girls (and 
some women have) that, of course, the guy is going to know exactly 
what is going on in her mind, and it will be his fault if he screws 
up!

Hermione is 15 going on 45. She is a smart cookie, book-wise, and has 
a good understanding of how Ron and Harry think. But, she has a 
special relationship with them. We haven't seen her in a 
boyfriend/girlfriend situation yet. Viktor doesn't count. 

What I find a bit off-putting about her is that she seems blessed 
with very precise insights on lots of people, including adults, that 
I find a little too precocious for someone of her age. I read 
someplace that JKR uses either Dumbledore or Hermione to present the 
reader with important explanatory information.  So, we have Hermione 
giving pithy one-sentence summaries that effectively highlight key 
elements of the characters (see her statements about Sirius). Her 
reads on characters are often correct - she just seems too young with 
too little life experience and relationship experience to have quite 
the level of understanding that she's presented as having.

Did that make sense?

Marianne