CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 9, and a NEW Flint!!!

[neith_seshat]

No: HPFGUIDX 88705

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> I've been wondering since I first read OoP whether "Little Miss
> Perfect" might be a typographical error (maybe a bad correction by 
the
> editor that was never re-corrected) for "Little Miss Prefect." Rita
> Skeeter would see Hermione's badge and know that she was a prefect,
> but I don't know why she would consider Hermione "perfect" unless 
that
> was a sarcastic term for "Know-it-all." It bothers me that "Little
> Miss Perfect" is repeated several times, so that if it really is an
> error, it was deliberately perpetuated. (If it were JKR's own typo,
> somehow overlooked by copy editors and proofreaders, it would have
> occurred only once.) Anybody?
> 
> Carol

I, for one, think she used that term to mean she's a know-it-all. 
Remember she was the one that discovered Rita's secret and locked her 
in a jar for a while; Hermione is also blackmailing her to write an 
article, whose content Rita dislikes at first. So, I think calling 
her Miss Perfect is a way to show her contempt about the whole 
situation.

Just my thoughts,

Neith