Hermione crying

[Annette]

No: HPFGUIDX 174636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Natalie" <snifsmak at ...> wrote:
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> I've read DH twice and both times I felt strange when I saw 
Hermione crying when I didn't 
> think it was natural to cry.
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> First was at Bill's wedding when Kingsley's patronus announced that 
the ministry had fallen 
> and the trio had to run.  Hermione was described as "half sobbing" 
as she and Harry tried 
> to find Ron in the crowd.  Later she was again weeping while she 
was on the dragon after 
> breaking out of Gringotts.  I felt odd when I saw her cry both 
times, as I don't think it was 
> natural for anybody to cry during these extreme emergencies, when 
you are more 
> confused than scared, and especially not Hermione.  
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> cariad now:

In your fisrt example I feel that Hermione was shocked and started to 
cry. Understandably so, they were celebrating a happy event;she must 
have been distraught amidst the chaos, separated from Ron, fearful.  
Maybe, just in those nano-seconds she'd see a vision of what the 
future held for them all, and it terrified her.

After Gringotts, maybe relief, surely, pain from all the burns and 
witnessing her friends burning too. The gnome's betrayal of the sword 
must have been the last straw.And it was a close call.

I cried/gasped/smiled more reading this book than any other HP, maybe 
Hermione was truly reflecting what most of us were reading as a story.

cariad.

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