OOP: Re: Ron and Hermione in OOTP

[Rach]

No: HPFGUIDX 64675

"gabnai1" wrote:
>>>I am especially disappointed that Hermione's character has not 
been further developed. Almost all other major charactes were, even 
Ron - becoming a prefect and a Quidditch star, and not so much just a 
side- kick of Harry - but Hermione just continued doing what she did 
before.nbsp; The elf hats were never resolved, either. Hermione needs 
to have the revelation that what she thinks is best for someone maybe 
different in a different culture.nbsp; Maybe JKR forgot to resolve 
that and it was supposed to be in there? >>>

I agree that Hermione didn't develop in this book, but she did do a 
lot of growing up in GoF. Girls tend to develop emontionally earlier 
than boys anyway. 

I feel that Hermione was revealed (in this book) as being the most 
grounded and emotionally stable of the three friends. She was able to 
help Harry in his confusion over Cho, help Ron with feelings of 
inadequacy over Quidditch, and more importantly calm Harry down when 
his built up anger got the better of him. This takes a lot of 
maturity, empathy and understanding. It was interesting to see 
Hermione become more aware of the boys feelings, she did tend to be 
rather, er, blunt in previous books.   I think Hermione as we see her 
now will continue to the end of the series.