Entertainment in the WW/Hermione at risk

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 130671

Bruce:
 
> Absence of proof is not the same thing as proof of absence.  But 
> I think that things like fiction don't exist in the wizardling 
> world, as the writing of fiction is as close as we muggles can 
> get to magic. (See JRRT 'On Fairy Stories'.)

Finwitch:

Considering Hermione's 'light reading' actually IS a school book of 
Alchemy -- why not? A story that for Muggles would work as a fairy 
tale, is HISTORY to magical folk.

But there IS fiction in WW, too: the comic Martin the Mad Muggle as 
an example. (mentioned in GoF - Ron reads it, apparently).

And dangerous books, too:

Sonnets of the Sorcerer - you'll speak in limericks for the rest of 
your life if you read it...

What was in the book you couldn't stop reading- (some fiction books 
DO seem to have that effect, they're just so interesting - or do they 
put me under a spell?) - or the one that burned your eyes out? Ron 
mentions them to Harry (remember TR's diary WAS nearly causing 
Ginny's death due possession etc.)

Somewhere... JKR asks why no one's worried of Hermione... and 
actually, I think she's likely to fall.

Book 1: she's nearly killed by a troll if not for Ron&Harry to save 
her.
Book 2: she's petrified by a basilisk
Book 3: she's overtiring herself trying to study too much (Ron breaks 
his leg, but Madam Pomfrey can fix that quite easily) and she 
couldn't beat her boggart
Book 4: she insults several house-elves with her SPEW-idea
Book 5: SPEW is going on, and she's in as much at risk as others of 
DA (which she came up with).

In addition, Hermione has an ongoing habit of running into the 
library by herself without so much as telling anyone - add this to 
those dangerous books...

Finwitch