[HPforGrownups] Re: Bad stuff for Hermione

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 53886

>This whole Rita Skeeter business is going to ruin Hermione one way
>or another.  It makes me uneasy.  Hermione can't be right all the
>time.  She'll finally realize that she can't solve everything the
>way she wants it to be solved.  Skeeter will more than likely bring
>attention to Hermione as, not only Harry's "love interest", but also
>as a muggle born who is Harry's bestfriend. It'll be like killing
>two birds with one stone for Voldemort who will have the opportunity
>to torture 3 kinds of people who hates: muggles, muggle born wizards
>and Harry Potter.  Except it'll be more personal because it'll be
>none other than Harry Potter's bestfriend,  Hermione Granger, and
>her muggle parents.

I agree that the loathesome Rita Skeeter will probably cause trouble for 
Hermione (and Harry and Ron). However, everyone already knows that a) 
Hermione is muggle born and b) that she's a close friend of Harry's, so I 
don't think an article by Rita Skeeter will be the catalyst if Voldemort 
*does* decide to target Hermione or her parents. Besides, people who believe 
everything they read in the *Daily Prophet* already think Harry and Hermione 
are, or have been, an item -- but whatever else Voldemort is, he's not 
stupid, so he probably gives Rita Skeeter's articles about as much credence 
as we give the *National Enquirer.*

(Or less so. In the Harry Potter universe, a lot of the stuff that gets into 
the *National Enquirer* is probably muggle sightings of wizardly 
activities.)

Janet Anderson

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