From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   The mind, a terrible thing? To waste?   
      
   As HRH grow up in front of our eyes, their characters develop, their   
   essence never changes.   
      
   Harry is our spiritual leader, transforming and transfiguring his   
   soul, learning in many ways to be the exact opposite of Hermione.   
   Harry the Soul stays on his essential, righteous course, teaching us   
   about choices and results of choices. That life is a journey with a   
   purpose not a simple trip through an extended library of facts.   
      
   Ron is Ron. Family oriented, salt of the earth, as spiritual as a rat,   
   if not for following Harry along, we could easily see him plodding   
   through Hogwarts and ending up, well, just as he did. Overweight,   
   boring; where getting his quite necessary Muggle driver's license a   
   major achievement of 19 years of effort...and he had to cheat to do   
   that.   
      
   What we have in Hermione as the intellect is a tightly wound, facts   
   only, individual who only friends has inside the Harry circle. Her   
   fellow Gryffindors' put up with her, rarely sitting with her at   
   Quidditch or anywhere else for that matter. Her social development is   
   retarded, intellects want facts not intangibles, not real   
   relationships. Intellects certainly don't transform themselves   
   spiritually.   
      
   Ms. Rowling has reminded us often how she is HJG, insecure,   
   relationship tainted, an intellect who never thought she was "writing   
   a fantasy series" until she had written one. As Hermione struggles   
   with all things spiritual so does Ms. Rowling by her own admission.   
      
   Who Hermione is is most about what she is not. What interest she has   
   in life things Harry is learning, the transfiguration of his soul by   
   making the right, selfless choices, she can only absorb or experience   
   through him.   
      
   Her entire life is built around these facts which keep her from   
   burrowing below or above them. To see the life past the veil or   
   acknowledge that such a life actually exists.   
      
   Aw, isn't this the lesson of  the Seeker? You have to trust   
   your spontaneity, make choices often based on gut feelings, that facts   
   are material and superficial and often simply get in the way of a   
   proper life journey. Hermione teaches us very little with one   
   exception. Don't be like her, facts will bury you.   
      
   The mind, a terrible thing? To have?   
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