Hermione's Hypocrisy?(was:Re: Kreacher - workable solutions?)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> >>a_svirn:
> <snip>
> >As far as Sirius was concerned the best way Kreacher could have 
> served him was to die quietly in the attic. And I must say I find 
his 
> attitude much more honourable than Hermione's hypocrisy.< 
> <snip>
> 
> Betsy:
> Hermione's hypocrisy? Huh? When was, or how was, Hermione ever 
> hypocritical when it came to Kreacher?  I thought she was actually 
> really good at sticking to her principles in the face of some rather 
> ugly hostility.
> 
> Betsy

For one thing she wasn't quite sticking to her principals, since she 
accepted the necessity of his staying a slave. Not that I hold it 
against her – the Order is fighting a war after all. I do think, 
though, that this being the case she could have the decency to leave 
Kreacher well alone and not to pester him with protestations of 
friendship and unwanted gifts. 
 
But I agree that "principles" is an operative word here. Hermione is 
not really kind to Kreacher. Still less she respects his feelings. She 
has a certain political agenda and is hell-bent on carrying it out. 
She has tasks formulated for everyone involved. Sirius and others for 
instance should be "kind" to Kreacher and treat him with friendliness, 
though in reality he is nothing more than a slave or – one might say --
 a prisoner of war. In her eagerness, however, she simply refuses to 
see anything that doesn't fit her theory. For example, Kreacher's 
fierce loyalty to the "Noble House of Black" and everything it 
represents. Or his deliberate sabotage of "purgings" they performed 
for the sake of the Order. She says that his old age and infirmity 
would surely account for it. His frustration and obvious hostility she 
prefers to explain by his supposed senility. In doing this she is, as 
Fred very justly pointed out, "kidding herself". 

Now why such an astute and sensible girl would be so blind? The answer 
is simple – she doesn't give a damn about Kreacher. She is neither 
interested in him, nor does she even see him as a person. He is just a 
point in her agenda, or an object of her crusade. I find this attitude 
hypocritical. I think that Sirius's hatred is more honest. He might 
not approve or empathize with Kreacher's feelings but he, at least, 
acknowledges their existence. Hermione only acknowledges what he 
SHOULD feel according to her theories and simply ignores the rest.  

a_svirn