Hermeione's Abilities

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 68942

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jsmithqwert" 
> <jsmithqwert at h...> wrote:
Harry is supposed to be the hero of the series, but he is always 
being one-upped by Hermeione. 

<Atropos G.>  then imagine his shock and ours that it is he and not 
Hermione who must teach almost 30 students DADA in the room of 
requirement.  What you say has alot of merit, but JKR has truly given 
us a complex character in Hermione.  Perhaps one of her biggest 
faults is that she hides behind knowledge.  Recall that just as the 
OWLS have an academically based and practical exam, our travels with 
the trio (H, H, and R) have been based in academia and also the 
practical, albeit magical world.  Harry (with a lot of help from his 
friends/teachers/and luck) out performs Hermione in a lot of the 
practical areas and definitely in practical applications of DADA.

Too, as a side note, Ron kicks her patooty in Wizard's Chess which 
both Ron and Harry feel is good for her.  She also showed alot of 
adolescent angst in GOF while relating to/with Viktor Krum-I think 
she is a good portrayal of the adolescent female who happens to be 
great in school, not athletically inclined (remember her broom work 
was poor), and not much of a "fighter" from the perspective that 
Harry is.  She is lonely, has few friends, is not very popular and 
has taken up one of the most outrageous causes (SPEW).  She is kind 
of a big know-it-all-geek-surely those things in themselves can be 
seen as faults?

A.G. (who really likes this geek having been one herself)