[HPforGrownups] The Hogwarts librarian
Rania Melhem
dunknegg at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 10 04:09:16 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 80306
As a librarian, I totally agree with you. I am very irritated by Madam Pince's description by JKR. I dont know why she is depicted so horribly. And she never seems to help any of the Hogwarts students find information.
Rania
sbursztynski <greatraven at hotmail.com> wrote:
Is it only me who is just a bit irritated by the cliched presentation
of Madam Pince the librarian? Really, who'd want her job? The poor
woman seems to have no asistance whatsoever, and she is on duty
virtually 365 days a year, from morning till night (in one of the
novels she closed at 8.00 p.m.). The only time I can recall the
library being closed to students she was dusting the shelves just
before Christmas (and if she's at the table on Christmas Day, JKR
doesn't mention it). She has to put up with students in Invisibility
Cloaks raiding the Restricted Shelves (restricted for good reason and
not by her)and leaving smashed lamps around, the terribly good
Hermione Granger tearing pages out of books and heaven knows what
else. And still JKR describes her as "thin, vulture-like" (the
cliched library dragon, it would serve them right if DD hired a real
dragon for the job) and chasing kids who eat in the library (myself,
I just ask them to finish their snacks outside, please). I wouldn't
blame her for leaving for one of those Muggle schools where they have
the Internet and automated catalogues and you can be involved in
teaching research skills instead of having popular novelists making
fun of you! : - )
Sue B
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