OOP: Hermione's perfectness and the car

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 62516

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elady25" <imamommy at s...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, phoenixtears288 at c... wrote:
> > "txjen70" <jen60565 at a...> wrote:
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> > > Hello, first post here and all.nbsp; Spoilers to follow..
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> > >OK, two things keep nagging at me right now - with more to come 
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> > >First does Hermione come off as too perfect right now?nbsp; I 
mean 
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> > >know that the theory is that there are 2 characters you can get 
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> > >with saying about anything, and she is one of them, but she's 
too 
> > >perfect. I mean is there anything they don't have her doing?
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> She's 
> > >a prefect, top in her class, always has her homework done and 
> helps 
> > >everyone with theirs, hands out love advice, can do spells equal 
> to 
> > >7th year work, fights for the freedom of elves and plans a 
> > >rebellion.nbsp; In fact she's shown as so perfect that when she 
> doesn't 
> > >remember that Snape is a member of the Order it seems totally 
> OOC.nbsp; 
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> >   Well, she doesn't play Quidditch. We haven't even seen her near 
a 
> broomstick since book 1. I think that's kind of weird... 
> >   Oh, and the car... I thought that the car was going to come 
back 
> in this book! 
> >    ~Paige Wood
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> imamommy:
> If you don't mind me quoting myself, a wrote this a couple of posts 
> ago:
> An aside: for all those who thought Hermione was too perfect, what 
> about her lack of understanding of how important Quidditch is to a 
> lot of people? Sure, she understands female emotion, she even 
> understands a lot about human nature in general, but she seems    
> pretty clueless about guy stuff. She gives Ron a really hard time, 
> and, yeah, he can be a bit of a jerk, but I don't think she really 
> gets him, you know? She's also not very understanding about how 
Harry 
> is feeling through a lot of the book, and while I think it was good 
> that she helped them become more independant in terms of 
schoolwork, 
> those homework planners were a *lame* Christmas gift. 
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> So I'm going to agree with myself, and say that Hermione is not 
> perfect;)
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Yes, and, despite of her cleverness, she was actually stupid enough, 
to mention in front of the centaurs, that she quasily used them in a 
plot against Umbridge. That brought both, Harry and her, in grave 
danger. Despite of the fact how much she likes the house elf, she 
isn't obviously able to understand most of them, and their loyality, 
they have for their master. I also don't think she is that perfect.

Hickengruendler