you CAN'T hurt a BABY!!!

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 109784

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "theredshoes86" 
<ballerinalaura at m...> wrote:
> In the 5th book, when Harry and the gang are running from 
Voldemort's Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic, there comes a 
point when Harry wants to curse the man whose head turned into a 
baby's head and Hermione stops Harry. 
> 
> She says, "you can't hurt a baby" and then something like 'there 
was no time to argue the suggestion' follows.  
> 
> Has this particular part stuck out to anyone else???  
> 
> Could, perhaps, Harry being a baby at the time when Voldemort 
tried to kill him have anything to do with Voldemort's powers being 
destroyed???
> 
> I mean, why else would Hermione say that? the guy was a Death 
Eater, she wouldn't have minded hurting him. And there are no other 
accounts of babies being hurt in any of the books ....
> 
> ANY THOUGHTS??????


SSSusan:
YES, this stuck out to me, too.  I actually stopped when I got to 
it, looked up and said, "WHAT??"  To me, it ranks right up there 
with the line in that-medium-which-is-not-to-be-named, "Is that 
REALLY how my hair looks from the back?"  Neither seems very 
Hermione-like.  No, this line didn't strike me as *meaning* anything 
significant; just that it was so out of character--so much less 
intellectual than what she usually says. 

Siriusly Snapey Susan