Hermione re: Lupin's lycanthropy (was: Hermione's a liberal)

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Alla:
> "NO!" Hermione screamed. "Harry, don't trust him, he's been helping 
> Black get into the castle, he wants you dead too - he's a 
> werewolf!" - PoA, p.345, paperback.
> 
> Now, this occurence was brought up to show Hermione's intolerance 
> to werewolves. Do you agree? Personally I tend to think that the 
> fact that Hermione was covering up Remus' secret all year shows her 
> tolerance more truthfully that behaviour in the Shack,when 
> everybody's emotions run high and everybody says things they may 
> not mean at all.


SSSusan:
My first thought was that, yes, you're right -- she did keep his 
secret all year, which shows "more truthfully" (as you so nicely put 
it) that his status as werewolf didn't make her suspicious or bother 
her.  And perhaps this was helped along by the knowledge that Lupin 
was assisting Harry in learning the Patronus charm [she knew that, 
right??].

OTOH, it is possible that Hermione *was* suspicious to some degree 
ever since she figured it out and, as soon as she suspected Lupin of 
betraying Harry by helping Sirius, she was ready to latch right onto 
that "He's a werewolf" thing as the *cause* of it.  I mean, instead 
of just saying, "I trusted you, and now I find you've been lying, 
helping a mass murderer to get to Harry!" she phrases it as, "Don't 
trust him... he's a werewolf!"

So which is it with this remark of her?  Emotions running high, and 
Hermione's just horrified at her own seemingly wrong judgment of 
Lupin's character as good?  Or is it to show an underlying prejudice 
(as we know exists in Ron), even in Hermione?

Siriusly Snapey Susan