Am I the only one...

[komagata_mai]

No: HPFGUIDX 134856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <bex753 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Hermione is a very good student but not a risk taker. Snape, whose grasp of 
potioneering is brilliant in all the books, is obviously an instinctive risk taking potion 
maker like (Lily Evans), and Hermione's Straight laced approach was bound to get some 
derision from Snape.

Me:

I agree. Hermione worships books to some extent. She doesn't think they are wrong, in 
terms of information they provide (which is a naive point of view). 

Snape criticizes her in DADA for quoting answers straight from the book. For DADA 
especially, this is not a good quality, since it is ever-changing, and requires initiative and 
creativity to defend yourself. (Hermione got an E in DADA).

She is attracted to the smell of books, and shows a certain derision to the fact that Harry is 
following "handwritten" instructions. 

Just because Hermione is the brightest student her age, does not mean she doesn't have 
weaknesses in the way she learns. I think of her more as the type of person who would 
scour the library for the answer, instead of using what she knows to figure something out. 
(she does do the latter, but she is more prone to waste time on the former first). 

Mariana 
(a lurker)