Hermione's career

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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" 
<greatraven at h...> wrote:
> > 
> > I've thought of this too. How about a union organiser for house 
> > elves? Goodness knows, they need one!
> > :-)She would, of course, have to find a way to persuade them 
without 
> > offending them.
> > 
> 
>Kneasy: 
> Which, of course, is not likely to  happen.
> They already get upset at her hints and suggestions; the only way
> she could impose her ideas is by coercion. "I know what's best for 
you
> and you'll damn well do it."
> Freedom by Dictatorship. 
> 
> Animal Farm all over again.

Laura:

Goodness, have you no hope for Hermione?  

I see her making the kinds of mistakes that very bright, very 
principled kids make.  She has the right ideas but she has yet to 
develop tact and diplomacy.  (I'm assuming you agree that keeping 
house elves in slavery is not a good thing.)  And she has to learn to 
work with people (or whatever) rather than try to roll over them.  We 
see her make these mistakes both in her approach to the house elves 
and in her dealings with the centaurs.  She doesn't come to them 
where they are but rather she tries to make them adopt her point of 
view, and it will not work.  Nor is there any reason why it should.

One thing about Hermione, though, is that you can rely on her to 
solve problems.  She comes up with a very nice way to handle Rita 
Skeeter, for instance, and she definitely did some quick thinking 
with Umbridge toward the end of OoP.  So I think there's hope that 
she'll learn some more constructive tactics as she tries to put her 
principles into practice.