"Little Miss Perfect" (Was Re: The OOTP Gripe List, v. 5,432)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 126168


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Richard Jones:
> > (3) Umbridge getting the D.A. list.  Hermione apparently "left 
> [the 
> > list] behind" "pinned" to the wall of the Room of Requirement, to 
> > quote the book.  Why in the world did she leave it pinned to the 
> > wall?  Why bother taking attendance at the meetings or anything 
> else 
> > connected to the list?  Why didn't she take it and leave it 
> somewhere 
> > hidden in her dorm room?  
> <snip>
> 
> Hannah:  
<snip>
> I don't know if this counts as Hermione messing things up, 
> though it's a good reminder that she isn't omniscient.  The 
> consequences of the list being there were not, IMO, forseeable for 
> Hermione, so I don't think she can be blamed for it.
>  

Hickengruendler:

I will go further and say that she didn't leave the list in the room, 
or at least there isn't any evidence for it. Umbridge said, that the 
room delivered the evidence. It's the Room of Requirement. The list 
probably appeared in the room, because it was what Umbridge needed. 
It is nowwhere said that the list was left behind.

And to add something: Even if the list was left behind, it was not 
only Hermione's mistake. Okay, she was the organizer and therefore 
probably most responsible. But that doesn't mean that the other 
students couldn't have reminded her of the list.

Hickengruendler