[HPforGrownups] Re: Future of Snape's Spying

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 144933

Kathy:
> I totally agree.  My reasoning goes back to OOP, Chapter 14.  Ron
> gets an owl from Percy - in the common room, late at night.  Red
> flag.  This never happened before, to our knowledge.  Ron is so
> ticked at what his brother has written that he tears the parchment
> to pieces and tosses it into the fireplace - after Harry and
> Hermione have read it.  Hmmm.  Now another very unusual thing
> happens.  Hermione VOLUNTEERS to correct/finish Harry and Ron's
> homework for them?  What?  Our Hermione doing their work? Again,
> something that has never happened before.

Magpie:

I think Hermione often deals with the boys by helping or witholding help 
with their homework or sharing her notes--especially in OotP--and here she's 
volunteering to do so (I think possibly after having refused becuse she was 
displeased) because Ron's throwing the letter in the fire has inspired her 
affection.  I don't have the book with me, but there's some note of a look 
she gives to Ron as he tears up the letter that makes it pretty clear that 
to Hermione this is Ron at his best.  Her volunteering to help with homework 
is her wanting to give something to Ron to show her affection for him for 
being such a good friend and being the kind of guy who would never consider 
dropping a friend to advance himself.

-m