Why Hermoine trusts Snape

[alicepmint]

No: HPFGUIDX 69616

 Melpomene said:
> Here here! May we please move on! She not only got over it but got 
> her teeth fixed to HER satisfaction behind her parents' back as 
well. 
> (Yes she'd have done that without the quip...okay okay.)

Me three. It just seems so out-of-character for Hermione when some 
people kept grudging on what a poor fragile little typical girly girl 
she was, like she's been shattered by one comment like looks is 
everything to her, as if she drawn her self-esteem from that big 
teeth of hers. As if she's eternally scar-for-life or something. I 
know everyone project his/her own values and standard on the 
readings,  I always identified myself with Hermione, seeing duplicate 
of the teenage self in her always. And I know perfectly well Hermione 
is A LOT more stronger than what some whiny people here made her out 
of (frankly I'm slightly annoyed by how everyone underestimate her 
character by OVER-emphasized how TRAUMATIC this one incident is...to 
the point I just have to roll my eye, big deal! Hermione's a big 
strong girl!). She have a brilliant clear, logical mind, who always 
put reasons over emotions. Especially this one incident motivated her 
to finally actually DO something about her teeth for good once and 
for all! She got it fixed, tackling that one weak spot so no one 
could pick on that anymore. She dealt with it. She moved on, 
Gryfinddor style! And there's NOT one single canon evidence ever 
showed that she was bothered by this incident one bit later. She's 
still the same proud strong girl we known of. She talked of Snape in 
the same manner she always does. She's comfortable with her image and 
knowledge as a person. I was proud of her. She got over it, and 
obviously forgave (ignore is the better word) Snape. She's cool about 
it, so yes can we move on and stopped over-exaggerage and single-out 
this one incident to shame Hermione as in she's some fragile insecure 
poor little girl please? 

Alice