CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 9, The Woes of Mrs. Weasley - Discussion Questions

[kristin1778]

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Marianne "kiricat2001" wrote:
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 JKR may want someone in Harry's generation to play that part of 
information provider, as a parallel to how Dumbledore has been used, 
and Hermione would be the logical choice. It just makes her a little 
> less "real" to me.
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> Marianne
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I think this is exactly what JKR intends with Hermione. Check out 
what she has to say about Hermione in the CoS DVD interview:

"I find that all the time in the book, if you need to tell your 
readers something just put it in her. There are only two characters 
that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is 
Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept it's 
plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much 
everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, 
she's handy."

That's what's so frustrating about what both Dumbledore and Hermione 
have to say about Sirius in OotP, because I think it's JKR telling 
us how it really is. Only, I disagree with it.

Kristin