Hermeione's Abilities

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 68539

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" wrote:
And I don't for a second buy her knowledge of OTHER people's 
relationships as an indicator she won't make a mess of her own....It 
will be hard for JKR to create real harsh flaws in Hermione...it will 
be hard to endow the put-upon minority characters with really 
blatant, unlikeable flaws...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Nothing so heavy -- JKR has said many times that Hermione is based on 
her own too-smart-for-her-own-good self. Those of us who share the 
same schizoid personality traits (*not* schizophrenic, okay? flame 
off) are rarely considered likeable, but this very inability to 
empathize with the emotional issues of others is the surest armor 
against bullying and peer pressure. Hermione's friends don't *like* 
her as in warm fuzzie big-hug *like*. They like her as in 'did you 
just love it when she said that to [Draco, Umbridge, Snape]'; 'whoa, 
she really knows this stuff'; and 'you're good to go if Hermione's 
got your back'.

And that's fine with her. She is, after all, the avatar of a woman 
who told an audience of hundreds of wide-eyed children that she did 
not believe in magic.

--JDR