From: bleablah@mume.invalid
Wilford Dumont laid this down on his screen :
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:02:54 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:
>> After serious thinking Sirius Black wrote :
>>> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:46:29 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:
>>>> 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? :/
>>> Yeah so shut up. lol
>>
>> Ok then. :')
>>
>> Understanding that the film is not canon, take a look at Hermione's
>> bedroom. Everyone not just you, SB. :-@
>>
>>
>>
>> There is nothing there to tell us anything.
> More telling.
> Harry Potter clearly does not care about either the family or the
> cultural background of Miss Hermione Granger. Ergo, we are told
> nothing of it. In Harry’s perception, Hermione Granger is a young
> woman with a mind that never rises above the facts.
Canon Hermione, for all her fine potential, once examined closely comes
across as an extremely “edgy” and rather brittle young woman, with a
number of highly distressing traits. Or to say once you get outside of
her Mind, she's all downhill. :-?
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