[HPforGrownups] could JKR be making fun of us? / quartets & houses (WAS: Re: Clash of Heirs)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 53335



Hi,

Thursday, March 06, 2003, 1:09:47 PM, Oiled wrote:

>  Neville is obviously 
> close friends with Hermione (she looks for his lost toad, he's the 
> one who knows why Hermione isn't at the Halloween feast

This last one is actually not happening in the book, just in
the movie.

PS/SS:
*************
On their way down to the Great Hall for the Halloween
feast, Harry and Ron overheard Parvati Patil telling her friend
Lavender that Hermione was crying in the girls' bathroom and wanted
to be left alone.
*************

And unless you think Neville and Hermione already know each
other before starting Hogwarts, I don't see her helping him
find his toad as a sign of close friendship.

To me it seems more like JKR showing us a facet of
Hermione's and Neville's personalities.

> , she helps
> him in Potions, she recognizes his discomfort in Moody's class, he 
> asks her to the Yule Ball, etc.)

I don't really see Neville and Hermione as very close
friends.
Friends, yes, but not extremely close, imo.

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 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net