[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Hermione's perfectness

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> >First does Hermione come off as too perfect right now?
> 
I didn't think so. Over achiever as always, yes. Too bright and thus inclined 
to blunders here and there, some more serious than others, yes, but that's 
Murphy's Law.

I'm re-reading the book, and just read the part where Tonks says she was 
never one for housholdy spells. Made me wonder how well does Hermione get potatoes 
peeled... Because as someone sort of bright at school but who never really 
was any good at knitting, I simply adored Hermy's lack of succes in making an 
elf hat look different from a sock, even after months of attempt... and 
supposedly with magical help in the end. Not that Dobby minds...

I've come across very intelligent people, especially at college, people who 
read hundreds of feet of papers in less time than it took me to understand a 
political theory 10-page chapter, people who effortlessy managed to compare 
theories and remember extensive quotes from books I found extremely boring, and 
who then proceeded to write parchments, sorry, papers several feet thick while 
most people were still trying to decypher their own class notes. People who not 
only work hard but also really understand stuff, and show us that if you do 
get a head start (instead of sitting around in the October sun trying to get 
the last tan of the year, or playing hung man in class - though I myself used to 
write poetry and funny comments on everybody's clothes), you can actually 
find homework not really that hard. 

Remember she's had four years of more reading and studying than the others. 
She's a Muggle, so she's not confined to Lockhart and the Daily Prophet's Dear 
Abby. She has two cultures to learn from (even if both her parents ARE 
dentists, and then supposedly the most boring people in the world...), and she's 
curious and bright enough to grab them both (here I'm thinking on her extended 
thery knowledge of boy meets girl and makes a mess of himself because he's not 
even from Mars but from a tiny moon). Actually, that she had that thing for 
Lockhart shows us, in a very hem hem way, she's not really that perfect, but 
simply just another girl - who has a very high IQ. But she doesn't strike me as 
half a nerd as she could.

I think that she made it to PREfect is a nice way of telling us she actually 
is not PERfect... but then maybe I'm taking analisys too far... :)

Cristina (who still likes Ginny best, but feels that Ginny is such a good 
mate with Hermione, the girl must really be ... well... real...)




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