Hermione acting out-of-character

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No: HPFGUIDX 111290

Brandy wrote:
I just want to know if I'm the only one who got really, really 
annoyed when Hermione came totally out of character and did 
something as stupid as saying to the centaurs that she wanted them 
to get rid of Umbridge for her.
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Anyone have an explanation for this?  Or is it just a mistake - JKR 
paying too much attention to where she wants the plot to go (seeing 
Grawp again) to think about what the character would actually do?


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Actually, I think her blatant mistake is in character.  

PS: Since she is the 'brains' of the trio, I'd fault her with 
forgetting the Invisibility Cloak after they had delivered Norbert 
to Charlie's friends.  They landed in detention and lost 150 points.

CoS: Polyjuice mistake, anyone?  After all she plotted and went 
through: restricted section permission, stealing of ingredients, 
brewing the potion for a whole month, sleeping draught in cupcakes 
and then goes and makes the simplest mistake of 'assuming' those 
hairs were Millicent's, LOL.

PoA: No huge mistakes there, only that taking all the classes was a 
bit too much for her. 

GoF: Again, she 'assumed' that Rita's articles would not bother her 
(got herself lots of hate mail and the smallest Easter egg from 
Molly, plus the teasing of her schoolmates).

I think that JKR has given us an almost perfect, rational girl whom 
makes mistakes when in distress or when she becomes too confident of 
herself, which IMO it's becoming of her.  Hermione is too right too 
many times in the stories, she has to have faults for her to be a 
believable character -and not just in the hair department, LOL.

Marcela