[HPforGrownups] Re: Am I the only one... AND why Snape dislikes Hermione

[Barb Roberts]

No: HPFGUIDX 135186





On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Milz wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Nanagose at a... wrote:
>  <big snip to the most important parts of the discussion>
>  > Nobody is saying Hermione is a genius, but she's still highly
>  > intelligent.

JKR, having been a teacher, shows us different kinds of intelligent 
people.  Which is best? It's akin to comparing apple, oranges and other 
fruits.

Dumbledore is the true genius.  He was both book smart and creative.   
He passed his NEWTS doing things with wand that amazed his examiner. 
And in JKR's words, he was mostly self-taught. He knew the material in 
the text, but experimented and came up with novel ways of doing things. 
The ideal doctoral graduate is supposed to be breaking new ground.  The 
highest academic (not administrative) positions in academia are 
supposed to earn these positions by demonstrating a career of research 
and new ideas (usually called "publish or perish")

Hermione is an extremely bright student.  Many of the best students go 
to class having read the lesson ahead of time hand.  One of the best 
students that I knew in college was always a lesson ahead of the 
teacher. This type of student doesn't sit and wait for the teacher to " 
spoon" it to them.  Many of these type of students make it to the 
doctoral level too, but typically have trouble with completing their 
dissertations.  Many too go on to become practicing medical doctors and 
lawyers. Think about it.  Unless we are totalty desperate, do we really 
want our physicians to be experimenting on us?

Fred and George are bright too. They remind me of the computer techies 
Bill Gates et al.) who don't finish college, but make fortunes with new 
ideas.

And then there is is Luna's mother, who was bright and very creative, 
but dead because of experimentation.  Reminds me of Curie's and their 
work with radium.

And then there's Mung.  Street-smart.

I shouldn't be writing this.  It's too earlier to be coherent...

Barbara Roberts (Ivogun)
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