[HPforGrownups] Christmas present pattern...

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 131796

--- rosered2318 <rosered2318 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Christmas is, of course, the ever-so-annoying homework planner.
> 
> It seems to me as though this is the perfect kind of present
> someone 
> *thought* Hermione would give.  It is very practical and has to do 
> with school, but it doesn't match up with her previous gifts. 
> Those 
> gifts were all personal and enjoyable on some level, but a nagging 
> homework planner?  It doesn't fit....
> 
> I have seen the stuff on Hermione being controlled by the imperious
> curse, but I just don't want to buy it.  It seems to...easy.  Can 
> anyone offer an alternate explanation?

Yes, she was finally getting sick and tired of being the all-purpose
homework machine for the Trio.

This Christmas present reflects the fact that the OWLS are less than
six months away and that Hermione is not going to be helping them
fill in their tests and that they'd better get cracking.  Personally
I think the present was WAY overdue and it might be a sign that
Hermione is finally feeling secure enough to risk alienating the boys
by stepping out of her self-assumed role of being the "smart one" of
the group.  

Magda

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