[HPforGrownups] Wider thoughts on Hermione 's lying

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 126937

>"moondance241" <leslie.s.bennett at l...> wrote:
>  
> Knowing 11 year olds (I have one), I would think she'd be more 
> likely to tell on the boys (even with the risk of losing more 
> points) then to lie for for them.  I haven't figured out her
> motivation.  
> 
> 
> Geoff: [added a number of excerpts from the book here]
> From my experience of teaching, I often found that, if you had a 
> disagreement with a boy, the matter had usually blown over by the 
> following lesson and things were back to normal. If you crossed 
> swords with a girl pupil, she would often sulk for days. This has 
> happened with Hermione.


Actually just reading over Geoff's excerpts here, I realize that
Hermione - in her own gauche bossy socially-maladjusted way - was
trying to BEFRIEND Ron and Harry through her interference with their
plans.  By lying for them about the troll incident, Hermione has
(with a flash of insight rare for her) realized what she should do to
show the guys she wants to be their friend - she doesn't tell the
truth which should be enough but adds a lie so that they are all
three complicit in the incident.  What really happened is a secret
they all share, and that creates a bond.

Magda  (wondering if gauche, bossy, socially-maladjusted 11-year-old
Snape tried to befriend James and Sirius the same way and it backfired)


		
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