About Hermione (was Re: Is Luna Lovegood the anti-Hermione?)

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 113680

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Paul:
> 
>  Harry himself accepts the following 
> > facts:
> >  a) a part of his mind is talking with Hr's voice,
> >  b) he can't lie to her face to face,
> >  c) when he acts he considers her advices as correct even if he 
> > doesn't follow them every time,
> >  d) the last thing he wants is to let her down and 
> >  e) their minds are in the same frequency most of the times.
> > 
> 
> Pippin:
> Where do you derive b and c? I can think off the top of my head, 
> of several times when Harry lies to  or deceives Hermione.
> 
> He tells her he doesn't miss Ron.
> He tells her he's been working on the egg clue
> He tells her he's been practicing occlumency
> He lets her go on thinking that the Elves are freeing themselves 
> with the hats.
> 
> Nor does Harry always think the advice she would give him is 
> correct. In fact he very often doesn't ask her advice because he 
> knows it would be useless -- at the beginning of GoF, for 
> example. His solution, writing to Sirius, is an excellent one, and 
> not something Hermione would have suggested at that point.

I think what Paul was perhaps trying to say with B. was that a lot 
of times Harry feels guilty about lying to her and it has been said 
in the books that he is not able to look at her when he is lying.  
This happens in Order of the Phoenix than in the other books.

Grace
> 
> Pippin