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   On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 12:25:14 -0400, VD wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 12:15:30 -0400, John M. wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:42:14 -0400, Wilford Dumont wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:13:15 -0400, VD wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> In order to experience the multitude of Reality you have to be able to   
   >>> step outside of your physical body. Either through your imagination or   
   >>> faith.   
   >>>   
   >>> Granger has neither. Without Harry, she is a Bossy Two Shoes with   
   >>> little personality and captured in her own, dingy world of relentless   
   >>> factoids and nothingness.   
   >>   
   >> Wil, you have nearly listed everything we know from JKR about   
   >> Hermione.    
   >>   
   >> Except she has brown hair and eyes and either curlish or curlysome   
   >> hair, somewhere between 5'-5'5"; we don't know what area of Britain   
   >> she lives, much at all about her parents.   
   >>   
   >> Re: her parents, she doesn't much care for their world and makes   
   >> little effort to return home when she can.   
   >>   
   >> I have always felt that JKR was telling us something by not telling us   
   >> anything - much re: Hermione.   
   >   
   > Her backstory imo is shallow for a definite reason. Her history has   
   > little to nothing to do with Hermione as The Brain, the Intellect, the   
   > Mind. MOF, an argument could be made that claims Hermione's backstory   
   > would be distracting; distracting away from her purpose as Ms. Rowling   
   > uses her to target the uselessness of the Mind in one's search/seek   
   > for your soul.   
      
   > It is my contention that Ms. Rowling's intentions here are clear. When   
   > someone chooses to ignore the obvious, there is usually a very   
   > poignant reason.   
      
   Yeah, well, when DH1 came along Rowling had to scramble like hell to   
   shove in Hermione's house, bedroom, street and other details which btw   
   don't tell us a damn thing about her. That we don't already know;   
   upper middle class, only child, blah blah yada yada.   
      
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