Evil Hermione Was:Re: Evil Snape

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
 
> And that Harry doesn't call Hermione on her behavior (Hermione 
> clearly knew almost *exactly* how many people were coming.  She 
> invited the Hufflepuffs for goodness sake) allows Hermione to think 
> that this sort of behavior is good.  And she continues it into her 
> bigoted manipulation of the Centaurs, her cheating Ron onto the 
> quidditch team (disgusting behavior that she *still* doesn't see as 
> wrong), and her trashy date shopping for Slughorn's Christmas part.


> Of the Trio Hermione has become their weakest link.  Not that she'll 
> *knowingly* do wrong.  She'll honestly think she's doing right.  


> But, just like Umbridge, I think Hermione's self-righteousness has 
> left her with a broken moral compass.  Hopefully her problems will 
> be recognized before she gets someone killed.
> 
> Betsy Hp
>
Gerry
Ron caught five, so she did not cheat him into the team, it would have
been a draw. And it is clear that she does see it as wrong, but she
did it anyways. Trashy date shopping? A seventeen year old trying to
make the boy who she is in love with jealous? Her manipulation of the
centaurs is not bigoted at all, she uses Umbridge's bigotry. Yes, she
knows she is using the centaurs, but what is her alternative? Waiting
till she gets another plan, waiting until Umbridge crucious Harry so
much he tells her everything? Do you seriously compare Hermione's spur
of the moment attempt to get Harry out of the claws of a very
dangerous criminal to the actions of that same dangerous criminal? 

Besides, Hermione does know best:

"Knowing they were doing someting to resist Umbridge and the Ministry,
and that he was part of the rebellion gave Harry a feeling of immense
satisfaction. He kept reliving Saterday's meeting in his mind: all
those people coming to learn Defense Against the Dark Arts ... and the
looks on their faces as they heard some of the things he had done..."
p. 312 Bloomsbury edition

To compare Hermione to Umbridge to me is just as ridiculous as
comparing Ron's abuse of his prefects powers to Umbridge's abuse of
her's. As for manipulation: what about Harry's manipulation of Ron?
Ron who was completely prepared to play Quidditch when he thought
Harry had spiked his drink with the Felix Felicitas potion, though he
perfectly knew that this was illegal, and everything but sporting. I
found the last actually very disturbing. 

Gerry, astonished at the negativity Hermione gets not only in this,
but in other posts as well.