2 Maddening Questions

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 91204

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "theultimatesen" 
<senderellabrat at a...> wrote:
> Ok... These two questions have really really bugged me constantly. 
> 
> #1- In SS, *why* did Hermione lie to McGonagall and say she read 
> about the trolls and thought she could take them on? What was wrong 
> with telling her the truth? "Professor, I was upset today and hid 
out 
> in the bathrooms. I didn't know about the trolls so Harry and Ron 
> came to find me and make sure I was safe. Turns out I wasn't."  

Because in the book, Harry and Ron are not as blameless as they were 
in the movie. They saw the troll walking in the girls bathroom, and 
instead of calling a teacher or telling Percy the prefect, they 
wanted to play heroes and locked the door, not realizing that it was 
the bathroom in which Hermione hid. (By the way, I don't really know, 
why they thought locking the door would be a great idea. Surely the 
troll could have smashed it). They only realised in which situation 
Hermione was, when she screamed. And then, she couldn't escape, 
because Harry and Ron locked the door. That means, although they 
saved her, they were partly responsible for the situation in which 
she was.

Hickengruendler