Hermione's growth (was Why Ron Loves Hermione)

[hermionegallo]

No: HPFGUIDX 81739



post 81660 David had a number of points to argue that Hermione seems 
to have become arrogant in OOP (snipped):

"She presumes to direct Harry's love life without checking whether he 
wants her to.  
She dismisses Firenze.  
She rewrites the  rules of her bargain with Rita Skeeter, just 
because it suits her.  
She decides what Sirius thinks of Harry, and has the cheek to assume 
that Sirius' support of an idea is a counter-recommendation.
Most tellingly to my mind, she makes no effort whatsoever to check 
whether her elf clothes are having the desired effect."

Kneazle255 posted his responses in 81714... under my name.  Please 
forgive the error.  The replies, snipped, as follows:

"She does not comment on who Harry should be dating, only explains 
the situation to an extremely flummoxed Harry.
She dismisses Firenze in response to Lavender and Parvati's girlish 
squealing over the centaur. She is dismissive of Lavender and 
Parvati, not Firenze. 
She rewrites her agreement with Rita to aid in a WAR. And incidently  
helps Rita as well get back into journalism, forcing her into 
writing  the most important article of her career.    
Finally, Sirius is generally wrong about everything in this book.  
Sirius does appear to see Harry as the second coming of James and 
actaully gets angry at Harry for not being James at one point.  She 
has every reason to be suspicous of Sirius. 
This is an expression of Hermione's weakness that she has had all 
along. She can be insensitive other people's feelings when they 
contradict her logic."

hg:
I myself would like to add that Hermione is possibly my favorite 
character, and David's points were strong enough to lead me to doubt 
her.  Kneazle, however, read the same things as David, but has seen 
them in a different light, one that's IMO more consistent with who 
Hermione has been all along.
hg.