[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPT DISC: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindo...

[Shelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 190047

On 2/9/2011 12:11 PM, Steve wrote:
>
> As to Hermione, she certainly had a case to argue, but her
> insensitivity was not to argue that case, but to argue it at
> that time and place. Her insensitivity was not based in a
> belief that Trelawney was a fraud and a determination to prove
> it, or in her status as a muggle-born, but in simply not
> realizing that while Lavender was so emotional was not the time
> for a reasoned and logical argument.
>
> Just a few random thoughts.
>
> Steve/bboyminn

Steve, I agree 100% with your assessment of Trelawney, but not about 
Hermione picking the time and the place for the discussion with 
Lavender. "No time" would have been a good time, because is essentially 
all boiled down to believing in Trelawney or not, and I doubt that to 
the fan club of Trelawney ever even considered reason or logic when they 
decided to support her. I don't fault Hermione as "picking a bad moment" 
to speak her mind, because I don't think the result would have been any 
different, and if I understood the book right, it was Lavender who 
wanted to have that discussion to persuade Hermione, and not the other 
way around. I'll have to reread that part to be sure.

Shelley