From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   It happens that Sirius Black formulated :   
   > 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.   
      
   Is this the appropriate time to whine about DH1 being a montage (sp?)   
   of bric n brac thrown together haphazardly as if she is desperately   
   trying to patch a quilt with too many holes? :/   
      
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