You CAN'T hurt a BABY

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 109834

SSSusan wrote:

>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.


I didn't actually find it particularly out of character for Hermione. 
It seemed part and parcel of her defence of what she perceives to be 
the defenceless- Neville, the House elves. She doesn't stop to work 
out whether there are any rational arguments against freeing the 
elves; probably rightly,(there were a lot of rational arguments for 
not abolishing slavery)  she goes with her gut instinct, and she is 
doing the same here. It must be partly this quality which makes her a 
Gryffindor and not a Ravenclaw.  

But the sentence struck me too and I am sure will resonate later.
Leah