Saving People?

[vekkel1]

No: HPFGUIDX 115442


Sophierom: 
> Hermione, on the other hand, rarely allows Harry to fall into that
> comfort zone.  This can be annoying - homework planner - or it can be
> insightful - don't give up on Occlumency, don't rush to action before
> thinking about why this is happening.  Even when her advice upsets
> Harry (firebolt, POA or cautioning about Sirius, OotP), she says it
> because she Harry needs to hear it.  By OotP, she's not throwing
> this advice in his face; she's actually trying to tell him politely, 
> even timidly: "Looking frightened yet determined," Hermione tells
> Harry, "This isn't a criticism, Harry! But you do 
 sort of 
 I mean
> – don't you think you've got a bit of a – a – saving people thing 
> [italics]?" (OotP, Am. ed., 733).  <snip>


The 'saving  people' comment has always eaten at me. How is it she can
say it like it's a bad thing when it has actually saved people's
lives? She would probably be stuck on some Troll's club and Ginny
would have never made it out of the chamber. Second year, he and Ron
did stop and go to a teacher, they took the time to tell someone and
that person was no help so he had do it himself. Even go back to first
year when they went to Hermione's idol and tried to warn her about the
stone, she told them to mind their own business, so once again he had
to do it himself.

I've always felt that Harry has one mother, she died to protect him,
he really doesn't need another one to tell him what to do.

"vekkel1"