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

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No: HPFGUIDX 120787


Alla:
> > Isn't that a bit ... harsh? Hermione was protecting lives of 
> > MANY against possible betrayal of one. She could have done it 
> > better, but  I cannot fault her much for that or call her a 
> > tyrant.
 
Pippin:
> The question is, I guess, whether you feel Hermione is so 
> innately good that her incipient tyranny needn't be nipped in the 
> bud-- she will never go too far. It doesn't seem to me that the 
> Potterverse works like that -- people who aren't stopped from 
> being bullies or tyrants go on to make a habit of it.


SSSusan:
Along with Alla, I don't think of Hermione as a tyrant.  But as for 
nipping her "tyranny" or, as I suppose I prefer to think of it, 
her "nothing will stop me from doing what I believe to be right" in 
the bud, I still suspect where she'll learn that lesson is with SPEW 
and the house elves.  

Because I haven't seen her as a tyrant, I don't think she needs to 
be taught a lesson over leading DJU into the forest or for stealing 
potions ingredients to make Polyjuice, because those really did 
involve trying to work for right/against evil.  But I do think her 
good intentions are manifesting themselves in misguided actions with 
SPEW, and I think she's going to learn that in some rather sobering 
way.

Just my two knuts, of course.

Siriusly Snapey Susan