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

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 88429

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:

> Perhaps it's Hermione style of making her assessments of people 
that
> has led some people to think that she's being set up to make a 
huge 
> mistake in judgment as the series progresses.  I agree, she is 
always 
> very sure of her pronouncements and opinions.  And she often is 
right 
> about things.  But, combine that with her occasional blindness 
with 
> regards to others, and I can see where this could be a problem.  

Marina:
I think Hermione has fallen into the trap I've seen a lot of very 
smart people fall into when they're young.  She's right so often, 
that she's come to believe she must *always* be right.  She's 
intelligent, she *knows* she's intelligent, and she thinks an 
intelligent person can't possible be wrong if she just thinks things 
through.  Her attitude toward the house elves shows this, as do her 
comments about Sirius.  In both cases, the situation is muddies by 
the fact that she's not *totally* wrong.  The house elves *are* 
unfairly enslaved.  Sirius *is* lonely.  There's just enough truth 
in her wrong conclusions to make her absolutely sure of them.


Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com