From: Emailaaronainsley@countermail.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:13:15 -0400, VD wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Which is why she ends up with that retard Ron. She hasn't a clue and   
   her smarts are of zip value to her when it comes to picking men. Or   
   for that matter, men picking her even stupid git, Mr. Earthman   
   WeaseLey doesn't pay her much nevermind until the latter books.   
      
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