OWLS - Draco Mystery

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 97351

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "djrfdh" <djrfdh at y...> wrote:
> Well, we DO know that Hermione does indeed draw her wand on Draco, 
so 
> perhaps at a later date, she "does him in" (so to speak) before she 
> can control herself...being such a control freak; emotions, 
> schedules, etc, it's highly likely she'll finally "snap" one day! 
> 
> If that should ever happen, I can visualize her becoming a "healer" 
> to try and make-up for her mistake....she would feel she "owed" 
> something and must repay it for the rest of her life.
> 
> She would, no doubt, have been a forerunner for women's rights!
> 
> djrfdh.....mmmmmm!

I don't see Hermione 'snapping' in a physically harmful (to others) 
way, possibly because I don't see her as a control freak. She, unlike 
Harry and ROn, does tend to behave in a physically restrained manner, 
the Slap aside, but this is not because she is repressed, but because 
she tries to be emotionally mature. However we often see her getting 
really angry and exxpressing it verbally or by diverting her energy 
into something else. Hermione spends half OotP in a fury over 
Umbridge, but instead of releasing her rage fruitlessly as Harry 
does, she acts positively by contacting Rita Skeeter. 

And I can't see how a girl at school in the early-mid 1990s can be a 
forerunner for women's rights. in the 1790s, perhaps!

Catherine McK