[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione Aging via Time turner

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 53557

Mark D originally said -
> (It also makes it less 
> creepy that Krum at 18 yo is so smitten by Hermione at 15 yo.)
 
Then David argued -
I find it hard to understand why this should be thought creepy.  
Nobody at Hogwarts seems to mind the age difference, whatever other 
objections they may have.  She may be 14 for most of GOF, of 
course ;-) .
 

Me -

The argument I've heard for this goes as follows. Viktor is 18. All 18 year
old boys are obsessed with sex. Ergo Viktor is obsessed with sex and in
order to be obsessed with hermione must be sleeping with her. He's an adult,
she's a child. 
Please tell me someone out there has a more realistic explanation for why it
s creepy, because 1 he isn't an adult, he's still at school, therefore a
child. 2 I don't know what the experiences of most of the proponents of this
theory are but at my school a 17-8 year old dating someone his own age would
have stood out like a sore thumb, they all dated 14-6 year olds (because as
i pointed out earlier girls mature earlier and most 15 year old girls are
more likely to strangle the boys in their year than date them) and finally 3
 Unless she re-appropriated that time turner, Harry's cloak and the marauder
s Map I don't think they were having sex anyway. Between having to sneak off
away from her friends/housemates, trying to find somewhere private and his
preoccupation with the challenges of the Tournament I don't imagine it was
really possible. I've heard it argued that they must have been having sex
because otherwise she wouldn't have been so important to him so fast - which
I personally think is gibberish. She may have been his first girlfriend
(training to play Quidditch professionally probably really limits your
social life) and as such you'd expect him to have such feelings.

David then added -
David, noting that Kathryn is the first known (to him) British 
exponent of the 'Young Hermione' theory
 
 
Me - 

Really? Hmm I guess that's understandable since British schools tend to be
very rigid about what year you're in. If you're 11 before the first of
September you're in that school year. I've even seen it split twins up (one
born one side of midnight the other born a few hours later, and the next
day) As such a younger student at most schools in this country would be
unheard of - it is more likely in public schools however, so between that
and the fact it's a magic school it doesn't seem that unlikely - if you can
accept that the school students are selected on the basis of their names
being recorded by a magic quill (that may or may not cope with name changes
and immigration) then it bumping Hermione up a year because of her abilities
isn't that hard to believe. She's either one of the oldest or one of the
youngest in her year and I think her behaviour is that of someone younger
than the others.
I think the way she is always trying to show her intelligence is her trying
to prove to everyone (including herself) that she belongs there - it strikes
me as a symptom of an underlying insecurity - probably not helped by her
being a muggleborn.

K