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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 166045

a_svirn:
That's not what I am saying. As readers, we can think that Dumbledore
might have been right after all. It would certainly be anticlimactic,
to say the least, if it turns out that Dumbledore was simply a vain
old food too trusting for his (and everyone's) good. But Hermione is
not *reading* the story, she is *living* in it. For her to rely on
Dumbledore's judgement at this point would be unreasonable.


Lynda:

Hermione simply trusts the opinion of her headmaster, a wizard that is as
powerful as Voldemort, and who has been for the wizarding world trusted,
with a short time period of exception, to the utmost by the wizarding
public, minus a few who are malcontents or some form of busybody, so
trusting him, on the part of a muggle born witch who is still in school is
not so terribly illogical, whether she is right or wrong.

Lynda


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