[HPforGrownups] Hermione and her parents redux WAS: Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188043

Rick H. Kennerly wrote:
> Another point of view, however, is that DD isn't manipulating as much as 
> educating and toughening HP.  Even Snape as he's leaving Hogwarts in HBP 
> is really teaching Harry a lesson about life outside the gates.  The 
> choice is always HP's.  And, as JKR takes care to point out throughout 
> the series, it our choices that define us.

Bart:
    I recall that before DH came out, I was pushing here the belief that 
Snape's final words to Harry in HBP was an attempt to get in a few last 
words of advice. In a less popular opinion, I found it a bit too 
coincidental that Hermoine and Ron had exactly the skills needed to get 
through the traps protecting the Philosopher's Stone, and, based on DD's 
remarks, that the whole thing was a set-up as an educational exercise 
(and in an even less popular opinion, that DD manipulated the friendship 
into being).

    Bart


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