Hermione's Hypocrisy?(long)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 129193


> Betsy:
> Aha! A light has been switched on!  Yes, in this manner, Hermione is 
> *very* condesending.  All house-elves must be innocent by virtue of 
> their victimization.  The funny thing is, Hermione's view of house-
> elves parallels exactly the WW view: powerless, useful, not too 
> bright creatures that need instruction.  Harry, by seeing the power 
> a house-elf actually has, is one of the few people in the books to 
> actually see house-elves as they actually are.

I'm confused. I thought you were arguing that Hermione wasn't a 
hypocrite? Seems to me that by saying her view and the wizarding world 
view of House elves aren't all that far apart *is* saying she has 
hypocritical views on house elves. after all, isn't she supposed to 
have the moral high ground?  How is involuntary freedom that they 
aren't prepared for going to do them any good? how is tricking them 
with something they don't want any good? How is infantalizing them to 
a point that is almost a caricature of a real pov doing them any good? 
She never acknowledges that he has every power to choose evil just as 
Dobby does good. she merely brushes everything he says off as the 
rantings of someone who doesn't know any better--and could be fixed if 
he would just allow it. It's insulting to him to believe he doesn't 
have that power if he is as free willed as she thinks he is.

Hermione strikes me as one of those people who dresses up like a 
clubbed baby seal to protest the WTO and capitalism and yet has no 
idea about what system should replace it once it is torn down.

she is a hypocrite--but she'll grow out of it.

phoenixgod2000