Is Hermione Supposed to be a Genius?

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No: HPFGUIDX 94688

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at m...> wrote:

> But what I've been curious about (and not just in regards to
> Hermione) is, if there are people with photographic memory,
> who *don't* appear to make good use of it in their lives.

Mark Twain's autobiographical book 'Life on the Mississippi' 
contains an account of a river-pilot who had a perfect memory.  Any 
time he was asked a question, he would start answering, then get 
side-tracked by remembering something else about whatever he was 
talking about, then get side-tracked from his side-track, and so 
on.  His conversations were one long train of associated memories, 
never reaching the original destination.

I don't know how accurate this is, but if somebody did in fact have 
a near-perfect memory, it sounds plausible to me.

Bill