[HPforGrownups] Re: Academic dishonesty

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 139480

>Del replies:
>Let's compare this to DADA. Can you imagine how Harry would feel if
>Ron found a one-of-a-kind book that told him how to easily produce a
>Patronus, and used it in class, and got a better grade than Harry who
>produced a Patronus the good ol' way? Or if the book told Ron how to
>produce silent magic without actually learning it the hard way, and
>Ron got better grades at silent fighting than Harry did? Don't you
>think that Harry would think that Ron cheated, and that he doesn't
>deserve to get better grades than Harry who is so much better skilled
>at DADA than Ron?

This is part of what I see the difference as.  I
think that if Ron found out how to do something
in DADA, Harry would want to know how to do it.
He would immediately ask him how it was done
and Ron would tell him.  Harry and Ron are both
interested in end results and they don't seem to
be bothered much about where they come from.

This is what bugs me about Hermione in this whole
sequence.  She always HAS been interested in the
theory - until HBP.  Now, instead of trying to
figure out WHY Harry's results are so much better,
she simply rejects them immediately.  If she were
truly interested in learning the theory behind potion
making, she would carefully analyze the difference
in the directions in her book and in Harry's.  It
is this CHANGE in Hermione that I don't understand.
I think it would have been much more in character
for her to look at the changes and say, "I see why
that helped.  I am going to put that in my book,
too.  I don't think this bit did anything, but why
don't you try using it and I won't and we'll see
whether it DOES make a difference." etc., etc.
Why was it necessary for Hermione to reject the
book?  I suppose it made it possible to keep the
Sectumsempra curse from her.  But that could have
been done with some stuck together pages, too.

I just feel that it is out of character for her.

Laura Walsh   lwalsh at acsalaska.net