CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 10, THE HALLOWEEN LONG

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Gina:

> This might be off topic but if Ravenclaw is a house of intellectuals
> then I wonder why Hermione was not placed in Ravenclaw. I have always
> wondered about that.

Magpie:
It's not necessarily the house of intellectuals. I can just be the house of those who prize the mind first over other things. Hermione makes clear both in her words and in her actions that she prizes action and courage over intelligence or thought. She's an excellent student but a practical one, learning things that give her the practical tools she needs to change the world in ways she thinks are best, or get the results she wants like good grades or the answer to a mystery, or just give her the facts so that she knows what she's dealing with. She's not known for thinking about things in new and different ways, or being philosophical. This, after all, is the girl who actually wouldn't use the written instructions in Harry's book in HBP. Faced with a philophical conundrum she's more likely to impatiently give the right answer than enjoy looking at it from different points of view.

-m