[HPforGrownups] Re: witches of the world (was: Lavender vs Hermione)

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 160383

> Betsy Hp:
> I really didn't like how Hermione treated Ron in HBP.  And I'm not a
> fan of her moral equivocating.  e.g. It's okay when Hermione cheats
> but she's death on others doing something similar.

It seems that again and again, Hermione comes across as a hypocrite -
the one line that stood out most to me out of everything anyone ever
said in HBP was that the stuff the HBP writes about is "probably not
ministry approved" - so, what, she's having delusions that the DA was?
If "not ministry approved" is really the worst thing she can say about
something maybe she shouldn't have a problem with it.

And comparing following a recipe in a book with taking orders from tom
riddle - EXCUSE me, how's that comparison any more valid than if he
were following the recipe that was typeset rather than the extra
handwritten instructions? Is there some moral threshold at the margin
line of the page? At least the argument that it was "probably not
ministry approved" had some chance of maybe having merit in some
parallel universe

> Betsy Hp:
> Hermione is a reader, which should be attractive to me, but she
> seems to be a pure non-fiction girl.  The way she's so quick to
> dimiss all of Luna's ideas

That's always ticked me off - not so much that it's a problem in
general as that it makes no sense in her position "well, I *know*
there's no such thing as a crumple-horned snorkack" bah. less than a
decade ago she also *knew* there was no such thing as magic. It is
absolutely inexcusable for a muggleborn witch to so easily dismiss the
possibility that something exists that is widely believed not to.

And where'd she get all this knowledge that she's so confident nothing
she doesn't know about can exist? books. Which means it's even less
excusable for to take a "never trust anything you read" attitude in
book 6.

> Betsy Hp:
> I do like the women I'm not sure I'm supposed to like (Narcissa,
> Pansy, Lavender and Parvati) but part of that could well be the
> blank slate effect. <g>

It probably is, IMO. I mean... does Pansy even have a speaking part?
She gets page time, sure, which is more than we can say for Daphne
Greengrass or Tracy Davis... but still, does she have any lines?

Out of curiosity, how do you see Pansy, in terms of personality / etc?

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Random832