Hermione as Stategist (was: Harry as Leader (was: What has Harry learned?)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 127474


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> 
wrote:
> The DA was a great plan, and much of the execution went off well, 
> except that her SNEAK paper was a pretty stupid idea. It was a 
charm 
> that was completely retroactive. 

GEO: However if the purpose of the charm was to isolate and 
punishthe traitor or the snitch among the DA then it did accomplish 
its actual purpose.

It only worked *after* someone had 
> already squealed. it didn't actually prevent anyone from talking. 
> Not very smart at all.

GEO: And would such a spell that would prevent them from talking 
actually even exist? Considering the traitors on both sides during 
the previous war, it seems evident that there probably isn't such a 
spell.

when I read the scene it seemed to me that 
> she was absolutely shocked when the Centaurs (a violent race of 
> human haters) wanted to actually *hurt* Umbridge.  She didn't read 
> as ruthless to me at all.  

GEO: Actually she does know that the centaurs were going to hurt 
Umbridge considering that she was in the forest when the centaurs 
issued their warnings towards Hagrid and humans in the forest. 

> A good strategist doesn't plan a situation that they can only 
escape 
> through dumb luck and without some understanding of how the others 
> in the situation are going to react. 

GEO: Yes, but she didn't think the centaurs were going to harm them 
considering that they regarded the two of them as foals.