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

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 120793


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
 
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> Alla:
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> Nevertheless, Hermione is VERY smart young lady as we all know, can 
> we be sure that she chose this plan only as last resort, or as 
> revenge against Umbridge, because I do like leading Umbridge to 
Grawp 
> instead as Pippin suggested.

Hickengruendler:

I think she chose the centaurs because she thought them to be safer. 
This is a bit ironic, seeing that Grawp in the end saved them from 
the centaurs, but like I said, the centaurs told them that they don't 
harm "foals", while Grawp was uncontrollable (at least the last time 
Hermione saw him) and could have smashed everybody. And seeing that 
he really nearly killed her the only time she met him, I could 
understand if she didn't want to see him again. It's as if Ron would 
have brought her to Aragog. Therefore she had a good reason to 
believe that the centaurs were the lesser harm for her and Harry, 
compared to Grawp.