First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 185754

> Pippin:
> In any case, Harry's celebrity meant he could never be shielded from
> public mockery. By the time he had to face Rita Skeeter, Harry could
> take it in stride, unlike Hagrid who completely withdrew, or Hermione,
> who embarked on a dangerous and ultimately senseless course of 
> revenge.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Harry has Snape to thank for that as well? 

Magpie:
Hermione took public humiliation far more in stride than Harry did. She 
laughed off Rita's articles. (Snape and Draco seemed to just make Harry 
more irritated in an area in which he was already sensitive due to his 
humiliation with the Dursleys--which included public humiliations at 
school with Dudley.) Hermione only got angry when Rita's articles 
caused her real annoyance (like people sending her pus that burned her 
hands). Then she embarked on a plan for revenge that not only worked 
with no danger to her at all but turned out to be of great benefit to 
her side. Can't see Hermione as any sort of object lesson according to 
the way the story worked out. 

-m