CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 19: the Lion and the Serpant (Hermione's Boggart)

[Metylda]

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> Ginger:
> Ohh, Alina, that was good! But it also got me
> thinking on a realted 
> thought:  Hermione's fear is failure.  What if she
> chose Gryffindor 
> because she feared she'd fail in comparison to the
> Ravenclaws?  
> Better to be the big fish in the small pond, so to
> speak.


bamf here:

I took Hermione's boggart not so much to be a fear of
failure as it was letting down someone who put a lot
on the line for her.  Hermione said it (and I don't
have my book in front of me at the moment) was
McGonagall who said she failed everything.  McGonagall
had written to the Ministry about what an outstanding
student HG was and how she would never misuse the time
turner and basically putting herself on the line
saying what a GOOD, RESPONSABLE person HG is. What if
her 'failure' was less to do with academics and more
to do with mis-using that trust? (Funny, how she did
in the end...) More that she let McGonagall down by
screwing up her classes but also with her
responsability?

And please let me know if I'm not making sense! I've
been sick all week and the anti-biotics have been
messing with my mind... 

Ta!
bamf

 

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"Fluently!" -Robin Hood
-The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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