Why SPEW will never work

[smaragdina5]

No: HPFGUIDX 90234

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tiger_queen429" 
<tiger_queen429 at y...> wrote:
> When I first started reading GoF, I really liked the idea of 
Hermione 
> in SPEW, but as the book went on, I started to not like the idea as 
> much anymore. Then, when I read OoP, I really started to dislike 
> Hermione and where she was taking SPEW. This is when I began to 
> realize that SPEW would never work out, at least not in the time 
> frame of these books. 

I've been reading _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_, and 
keep being struck by reminders and pointers about SPEW.  In the Twain 
story, the narrator of the Arthur-era story (not the first narrator 
in the story) keeps remarking on how set in their ways the people 
are, how they have grown up raised on only certain ideas, that it 
would never occur to them to think another way, and how it doesn't 
work to try to shock them into behaving the right way and treating 
everyone properly as equals and feeling that they have inherent worth 
themselves.  The narrator tries to move slowly with the right people 
and not go about strongwilling and bulldozing the entire system.

I haven't gotten to the end of the story yet.  I wonder what will 
happen in our septology parallel.

Betta smaragdina