Hermione breaking (was: In defense of Hermione )

[totorivers]

No: HPFGUIDX 115441



> Sophierom, who admires Hermione a great deal because I was once 
> a smart, bossy girl; but unlike Hermione, who's toning it down 
> without losing her identity, I completely folded under social 
> pressure during middle and high school and am only now learning 
> to assert myself again.


Toto:
  Hum, that's where I may really think otherwise (about Hermione). 
JK hinted at Hermione's breaking sooner or later. She said that we 
should worry more about her. She said Harry needed her. She said 
Harry should crawl up and die, it would be easier for him. While 
Hermione is my favorite character, and I think she is stronger 
willed than you have described (I believe she knew from the 
beginning what being a muggleborn would be), there are chances that 
Hermione breaks. It would be sad, and it may finish in R/Hr -with 
Harry too weak to help her, and her too stupid to realise her 
mistake. I also wonder how Harry would fare in that case (maybe 
super Lovegood to the rescue :) ). Of course, two other scenario 
would be for Ron to grow up and distance himself from Harry, helping 
Harry to see a few other things, or Ron and Hermione mingling and 
changing, but it would transform the book on their tale, and... 
Plus, I disagree about something else: Ron needs to be sure of 
himself, and someone like Hermione would smother him, or so I think.