Hermione cheating over Trevor?

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 129549

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" 
> 
> Sometimes, I'm amazed at the amount of people who will fiercely 
defend
> Snape, even over this incident or the time with Hermione's 
accidental hex
> and her teeth, and yet expect the children to rise to the level of 
mature
> adult behavior and logic about Snape.  In the Trevor potion 
incident, it has
> been said that Hermione was cheating by helping Neville.  But 
let's put
> ourselves in her place.  These were kids, Hermione just 14, the 
others
> somewhere between 13 and 14.  All they know of Snape's behavior 
toward them
> is that he is routinely nasty and unfair to Gryffindor students 
and lets
> Slytherin get away with anything.  Again, I'm trying to think from 
the kids
> point of view.  Remember, at this point, they have no idea that 
Snape may be
> working for the order, a spy for Dumbledore.  Voldemort has not 
returned to
> his body yet.  They don't know about the order yet.  They are kids.

I agree with you one thousand percent Sherry. Hermione doesn't 
strike me as the type who would cheat for someone in ordinary 
circumstances. She thinks too highly of school for that. But if you 
asked her about that situation, I bet she would argue that her moral 
imperative was to help Neville so his toad wouldn't be subject to a 
badly made potion over making sure he learned how to do the potion 
right.  She probably wouldn't have helped Nev to the extent she did 
had Snape not made the threat.  I don't consider what Hermione did 
cheating, I consider it an act of compassion. regardless of what 
Snape was trying to accomplish, threatening Neville's pet was the 
wrong way to do it, and Hermione was in the right by ruining Snapes 
little object lesson.

phoenixgod2000