The Quality of a Hogwarts Education

[Susan A]

No: HPFGUIDX 188224

SSSusan:
> > First off, I don't question at all your position that Hermione 
> > could have had quite a successful and fulfilling life in the 
> > Muggle world.  
> >
> > OTOH, I want to think more about whether I agree that her life in 
> > the WW was "not as rewarding a life" as she could have had in the 
> > MW.  I'm just not sure that's so.  That really, imo, depends upon 
> > how one defines 'fulfilling' and must, imo, take into account 
> > what each individual would want or need in order to call his/her 
> > life 'fulfilling.'  
  
rick:
> Well, she was a child of the internet cast back into 1945 to live.  
> (Interestingly, Binn's history of magic textbook is published in 
> 1945--at least the edition cited in the footnote of Fantastic 
> Creatures).  Unlike HP, she was loved, well cared for, and I'm sure 
> her parents had expectations for her education and career.  So she 
> ends up a magical Please-Man.


SSSusan:
I really don't get what you're saying when you say she was a child of the internet cast back into 1945.  What in canon tells us that Hermione loved and desired her Muggle life much more than her Wizarding World life? Or that she missed things she would've had in the MW that she no longer had access to or could achieve in the WW?  

Hermione strikes me as someone who *loves* the world where she lives.  And hell, as to being a child of the internet cast back, Hermione loves the good old book more than anything! ;)

Seriously, it seems to me that you are presuming to know what is best for Hermione, what would make her life fulfilling.  That was the point I was trying to make in the rest of my post, which was snipped out, where I used Harry's love of flying as an example.  There we have something specific & concrete that shows us how the WW was superior to the MW for Harry.  

So I'd ask again, what is there in canon which shows us the *opposite* for Hermione?  That is, what shows us she was less satisfied, less fulfilled in the WW?  Isn't this actually you putting *onto* her certain desires and hopes for her life based upon talents you see in her?  How do we know she would concur that life in the RW would've been more fulfilling?

Siriusly Snapey Susan