Hermione

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 85446

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chiara.fantoni at c... wrote:
> I don't like Hermione, that little spoiled arrogant brat "I know it 
all",
> never did, never will.
> 
> If I recall correctly JKR said more than once that Hermione's 
character
> reflects her own personality; up to now I haven't read or watched a 
single
> interview, as I'm a very late fan.
> 
> Is JKR that arrogant?
> 
> Can someone point me to some place where I can find interviews?
> 
> Sorry if I offended anyone, but I suppose I'm entitled to my 
opinion ;-)
> 
> Chiara

Personally I like Hermione.  I was the school swot type too.  

While you are entitled to your opinion, I'm not sure I take your view 
of Hermione as being a spoiled brat.  Arrogant, maybe, but spoiled 
brat - how do you figure this out?  Come to think of it, I don't even 
buy that she is arrogant - this was the girl who went to cry alone in 
the loo when she thought people didn't like her.  An arrogant kid 
would just take the line that people who didn't like her were 
idiots.  Opinionated - yes, she probably is but not arrogant.

I see no evidence that she is spoiled, constantly getting her own 
way - if there is a spoiled brat in the canon, then for my money, 
it's Draco:  "Daddy - I wanna be on the Quidditch Team"  "Sure thing 
son, lets equip them with new broomsticks and that should sort it".

Hermione recognises her limitations - knowing that while she'll 
always be a great booklearner that there are other ways to excel - 
and that's by instinct and talent - like Harry does.  

As regards JKR, she has taken a fair amount of public flack in the 
UK -where there is an uncomfortable national trait to denigrate great 
success.  I think envy tends to account for this in most cases.  She 
has also developed an aloof public image - she comes over as a 
reserved and private person but also there was an episode of a 
tabloid magazine photographing her daughter and she (rightly IMHO) 
regarded that as an unnecessary invasion of her privacy.  The 
reserved and private public persona strikes me as simply being self-
protection.

June