What HP Character Scares You Most?

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 59096

Ebony asked:
>--are there any aspects or characters in the Harry Potter books that
>creep you out?

so tepmurt answered:
>I guess, though, that the person that scares me the most is Fudge.
>It's not an "I'm scared of him" type of feeling, but more of an "I'm
>scared of what he'll do."  At least with Voldemort I've got some
>sense of direction...


Ooo.  I like that.  Voldemort we do not fear as much because we know
what he wants and know where he is going.  Fudge is a loose cannon
that could slip away nicely into the background or become a *serious*
problem and mess everything up.

One of my friends on the site feels the same way about Ginny, whom I
defend also as fiercely as I defend certain appliances.  She thinks
Ginny is a liability to Harry and could really be a threat to him
without intending to.

To counter that, I said I feared Hermione the most.  At first, I was
some what joking because my friends likens herself to Hermione, like
most women on this site...and a few men, but once I really started
thinking about it, I realized I do fear Hermione the most.

First off, she can lie so coolly and with any hint of it.  Think of
her lie in the girl's bathroom with the troll.  Being able to lie
without even a hint of what you are doing is a dangerous trait to have
in your arsenal.  I always thought Melanie in Gone With the Wind was
rather eirry for her ability to have the power of making people
believe whatever she said.  It is a huge power to possess, and
Hermione has set up the base to use this power.

Then she takes charge with the polyjuice in CoS and once she set her
mind, she *was* going to do it no matter how flaky Harry and Ron felt
about it.  She wanted to see if she could do the potion.  I think that
is why she was not open to any other suggestions.  Really, if they did
get a confession, what were they going to do then?  Go tell a teacher?
 Then the teacher would have called Draco and Draco would have denied
it.  Then the trio would be asked how they knew, then they would say
they used an dangerous potion, that they should not even be able to
brew, to sneak into the Slytherin's common room on the hope that Draco
was as bad as they thought him to be?   Hermione was dead set on
brewing that potion to see if she could.  If she had thought beyond
it, or Harry and Ron for that matter, they would have realized it was
a fruitless plan with more problems.  But Hermione did prove to
herself that she is all that and can brew potions beyond her age
group's ability.

Then there is the whole house elf misunderstanding.  Even though the
elves do not want it, she still believes she is right and will not
listen to anyone that disagrees with her.  She does not even listen to
the elves.  She just assumes, because she was born a muggle and
nothing should be enslaved in the muggle world, that the same should
hold true in the wizard world and with magical creatures.  House elves
are not humans, and yet Hermione treats them as if they are.
Hermione, once she has a strong reaction, does not waver from it no
matter how many try to show her she could be wrong.

But the reason I fear Hermione the most is because of her actions with
Rita Skeeter in GoF.  That is down right obsessive.  Once Hermione
decided to go after Rita, she did not stop until she has her.  The
worse case of this is when Hermione captures her.  At the moment when
she does capture the Beetle!Rita, Hermione *should* have been worried
about her best friend Harry.  Instead, that stupid reporter is still
on her little obsessed mind and Hermione is looking around for her.
She is so engaged in looking for Rita that when she find her, Hermione
was overjoyed and slammed her hand around the beetle interrupting a
deep, loving hug which her best friend needed.  Hermione was too into
finding Rita that she forgot what was more important.

Then we have Hermione's famous imprisoning of Beetle!Rita.  Hmm, she
has problems with the enslavement of house elves, but she does not
mind holding a transfigured human in a glass jar with a leaf to eat
until *she* chooses to let them go.  Hermione was even showing off her
trophy to Harry and Ron in the train.

Hermione finally went to far and that is what scares me.  Once she
gets an idea in her head, she is unstoppable and foolish.  If she is
ever caught, she *will* be greatly punished.  She is playing with the
big boys now, and she will get in under her head and when she does,
poor Harry will have to save her and then he might fail and then...

I just fear Hermione the most.  She is a girl with tremendous
potential, very knowledgeable, and internally driven.  But she also is
deaf to good advice, obsessive with her goals, and does not think her
actions in full.


Melody