Potions, the Book, and a New/Old Perspective

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 165320

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:
>
>  bboyminn:
> 
> > This is why Herione infuriates me so. She knew there were
> > better formulas, yet doggedly sticks with formulas she
> > knows are bad. That's not the 'run to the Library'
> > Hermione that I know and love. If she hadn't been so
> > stubbornly /against/ that book. She would have gone to
> > the Library and found a real authorized official book to
> > help her rather than relying on some dodgy notes written
> > in the margins of some old book.
> 
> Magpie:
> It's crazy. I'm not even Hermione and I wouldn't accept working 
with 
> inferior instructions. It's common sense. But then, Hermione's idea 
of 
> genius often seems foreign to me.

  The whole HPB business demonstrates just what kind of student 
Hermione is, an expert researcher and exact follower of instructions 
completely lacking in originality. Her essays are undoubtedly 
detailed, perfect and dull as one of Professor Binn's lectures. I 
seriously doubt whether she has ever made the step from rote 
memorization to conceptualizing knowledge.