Could Harry have saved Snape? (was Reacting to DH...)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 178037

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> wrote:
> Ceridwen:
> Hermione sank below the sub-sub-basement for me here.  Miss Level-
> headed in a Crisis, and all she can do is conjure a phial?  Sorry.  
> She was level-headed enough to bounce-Apparate when Yaxley grabbed 
> onto her after leaving the MoM, she could have remembered her 
> carefully-planned store of dittany.  Instead, she came off as 
> Redshirt number two, giving Kirk whatever he needs, with far less 
> effective results.

Geoff:
Yes, but remember that Hermione has her moments, beautiful but 
(fortunately) rare...

Your comments immediately took me back to:

'"Shut up, I'm trying to remember how to kill it!" said Hermione.
"Well, hurry up, I can't breathe!" Harry gasped, wrestling with it as it 
curled around his chest.
"Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... What did Professor Sprout say? It likes 
the dark and the damp..."
"So light a fire!" Harry choked.
"Yes - of course - but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing 
her hands.
"HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"
"Oh, right!" said Hermione and she whipped out her wand, muttered 
something and sent a jet of the same kind of flames she had used on 
Snape at the plant.'
(PS "Through the Trapdoor" p.202 UK edition)

Definitely not one of her better moments....

As she says later in the same chapter:

"...Books! And cleverness! There are more important things..."
(ibid. p.208)

- like the practical application of the same.
:-)