[HPforGrownups] Re: The Quality of a Hogwarts Education

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188226


> 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?  
>   
rick:

I think you missed the preceding messages.  The argument was that Hg was 
well educated for her age and her parents--well educated and successful 
professional--would have had conveyed expectations and hopes for her 
future.  Well educated professionals tend to breed well educated 
professionals.  I just don't see Hg really working out in the WW or 
being happy with a high school education, particularly when the life 
she'd been dropped into was some 50 years behind her times (any more 
than Ron would have worked out well in the muggle world 50 years ahead 
of his time). 

> SSS:
> 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?
>   
rick:
I think this round cooked off when I referred to Hogwarts as a trade 
school education.
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Rick Kennerly
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