Hermione and 'Evil is a strong word' (WAS Re: CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White Tomb)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 166018

> > a_svirn:
> >
> > What intrigues me is whether she is doing it because she wants to 
> > believe in Dumbledore's judgement (which, in my opinion, wouldn't 
be 
> > at all smart in her position) or because of something else. 
> 
> Pippin:
> Perhaps what she has in mind is that she was perfectly sure that
> she had seen Snape hexing Harry's broom with her own eyes, and
> perfectly sure that no one but Draco Malfoy could be opening the
> Chamber of Secrets. Both times she was completely wrong. 
> 
> She doesn't seem to have as much confidence in the straightforward
> interpretation of events as you do.
> 

a_svirn:
She was right about Harry being hexed. She suspected the wrong man, 
it's true, but here and now there seems to be no room for doubt – it 
was Snape who killed Dumbledore. As for Draco, she wasn't "perfectly 
sure". She homed on Draco because he was an obvious suspect, and she 
carried out investigation as best as she could. Perfectly sensible 
thing to have done. The same way Harry suspected Draco in HBP and 
carried out investigation the best way he could. And again, it was 
perfectly sensible thing for him to do. Hermione, on the other hand, 
wasn't sensible at all on that occasion. But what's for her to 
investigate now? She knows how Dumbledore died (unless she questions 
it too?) and she knows how the death eators got into the castle.