JKR's Messages (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

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> SSSusan:

snip.


But anyway, I guess my specific question in response to your post 
here is:  Would JKR really be telling us via the Hermione-turns-into-
a-cat episode that she's being *punished* or getting her comeuppance 
for stealing?  I mean, she may be the one who stole the ingredients, 
but the other two were equally involved in the process -- 
accessories, as it were -- and so if what she/they were doing was 
morally wrong & worthy of punishment/comeuppance, wouldn't JKR have 
had all *three* experience such consequence?  



Alla:

I agree. I  do not see Cat!Hermione as her punishment (just my 
opinion) at all, because otherwise Harry and Ron should have suffered 
too  and in my opinion they did not.

I think that for some reason JKR needed to exclude Hermione from 
being in Slytherin dormitory. I wish I knew why, but I don't see it 
as punishment.

I do see her being scared in the forest as some kind of punishment 
though.

Just my opinion.

Alla