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On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:21:42 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:
> 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 controlled 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.
The Mind/Intellect as portrayed by Ms. Rowling lacks the Seeker's
creativity and concern for the soul. The imagination simply is not
there.
> And she knows this. She admits as much in the very first book.
> ´Books and clevernessĄ. 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)
Maybe you it did. ;0>
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