CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:
>
> June:
> The one thing in this book that I have always thought about was
> when Lavender is crying because she got news that her pet rabbit
> had been killed. I love Hermione to pieces but I did think that
> she was a little insensitive to Lavender's situation which could
> also be why the two best friends and Hermione never really became
> friends. Personally I think that Hermione should have kept her
> feelings about divination and her logic out of it in this case to
> confort a dorm sister who really needed it. What does everyone
> else think about this?
>

Good question.  It might just be the way Hermione herself processes grief -- by looking at things logically.  She seemed to be the same way toward her own grief at the beginning of DH when talking about how she modified her parents' memories and sent them away.  In which case, she may have just been doing unto Lavender as she would have had others do unto herself.  That backfires sometimes.

Although it makes it a bit ironic that she once accused Ron of having the emotional range of a teaspoon, doesn't it?

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