From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   VD used his keyboard to write :   
   > On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 12:40:19 -0400, Sirius Black wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   > Ms. Rowling informs us on her website that she has deliberately kept   
   > Hermione’s family in the background because she has chosen to give   
   > so much prominence to the Weasleys. Huh?   
      
   > In 4,100 pages she ran out of parchments? ;)   
      
   > Sorry, the explanation is either purposefully misdirecting or   
   > dishonest. I'm all in for "purposefully misdirecting". ;0)   
      
   None of this boded well for her performance once she is away from the   
   controled structure of a classroom. She is a plodder. A very clever and   
   effective plodder, but a plodder none the less. There is a very real   
   lack of spontenaity and originality there.   
      
   And she knows this. She admits as much in the very first book. “Books   
   and cleverness”. That was *NOT* a piece of false modesty, or even real   
   modesty. It was a statement of fact. It took us until the end of Book 6   
   to finally get the message. :o)   
      
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