Evil Hermione Was:Re: Evil Snape

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 154526

 
> > SSSusan:
 
> > Pippin gave a couple of examples of Hermione & Ron letting Harry 
> down 
> > in "grand scale" ways.  To those I'd also add Hermione's 
handling 
> of 
> > the setup of Dumbledore's Army.  
<snip>

> > Hermione really put him in an awkward position, and he was 
> > forced into doing/saying things he really did not want to.  I'd 
> have 
> > felt let down as well.
> > 
> > Siriusly Snapey Susan


Jen D:
> Glad to see you back! But I think you are making way too much of 
the 
> over-large crowd that greeted Harry at the first DA meeting. I 
know 
> he was shocked, a little irritated but let down? I can't see it. 
> Maybe surprised so many people wanted to learn DADA and from him. 
> After all, he was just coming off being smeared by the Ministry. I 
> will have to go back and read carefully, but wasn't he actually 
> excited after the initial shock wore off? I recall him thinking 
about 
> lesson plans and getting quite jazzed. Sometimes your friends do 
know 
> what you need better than yourself. This is a fine example of 
> Hermione's know-it-all behavior but not a let-down, not a failure 
to 
> stand by or work for Harry's greater good.
> Jen D. (back herself from a time in another strange land and glad 
to 
> be here...)
> >

Annemehr:

*joins the party*

I agree with Jen D. on this one.  Only those really close to you, 
who know you really well have the right and insight to do this, but 
sometimes a friend just has to step in and do the right thing.

And as it turned out, the DA was the only thing that made Harry want 
to go back to Hogwarts at all after spending Christmas at Sirius's 
house.  Not that a good outcome is in itself any excuse for sticking 
your nose in where it doesn't belong, but I take this particular 
good outcome as a sign that Hermione actually did know what she was 
doing this time.

Of course, it's easy to question Hermione's behavior in all sorts of 
ways in this book.  I haven't necessarily come to terms with all of 
it for myself, one way or another.  I did have a lot of fun some 
time ago writing a tongue-in-cheek ESE!Hermione "theory" once, 
though:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117983

Annemehr