"Constant as the Northern Star"

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 114681


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Among all the major characters Hermione is the one I've theorised 
about 
> least; she just doesn't have a handle, a foible, a weakness that 
can be 
> built on. Oh, except once, and her weakness was her caring nature. 
What 
> would she do, what price would she pay if an apparently sincere 
> somebody wandered up to her and promised that if she co-operated in 
> this very minor bit of business, then it would eventually result in 
> House Elves being freed? Mmm. Interesting.
> 


Well, I think she has a worse weakness than that, which is her love 
of logic (perhaps paradoxically).  Hermione is all too ready to 
accede to any argument that matches her logical standards.  Given 
that, she would be extremely easy to deceive given the right 
approach.  That is, line the logical evidence up, and trust that she 
won't let her heart, which might no better, overwhelm her reason, 
which is being deceived by a chain of false evidence.  This, 
incidentally, is the way she is often portrayed in Azkaban!Harry 
fanfiction, and I think it is a real danger.  In OOTP we saw the 
danger of Harry not thinking.  I would love it if in HBP we saw the 
danger of Hermione thinking too much.

Dzeytoun