Unlikeable Hermione wasRe: Chapter 18: Dumbledore's Army

[Amy Z]

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Luckie wrote:

> But back to my point - how often have we known Hermione to 
> be wrong? OK, significantly wrong? Everyone was wrong about Snape 
in 
> SS/PS, but in CoS Hermione figured out the Basilisk and the pipes. 
> In PoA she knew Lupin was a werewolf when no one else did. And she 
> WAS correct that Sirius and Harry's rashness would lead to danger. 
> Harry does have a helping-people-thing. 

That's actually what bothers me about Hermione's Cassandra role in 
OP.  Having a character who clearly and correctly predicts what will 
happen and why is a weak device, IMO.  Hermione is right:  Sirius is 
reckless; Harry is liable to be taken in by Voldemort, especially if 
his savior complex is activated.  None of this makes Hermione a 
problematic person, but it does make her role in the story highly 
irritating (to me--YMMV).  So it isn't Hermione I'm getting annoyed 
with, it's JKR.

Amy Z

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The Whomping Willow was a very violent tree which stood alone in the 
middle of the grounds.  --HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban