Even without the enhancements, in real world terms Hermione was the most admirable character. Harry was a young boy with an old genius’s brain patterns and an Oxford professor of science to raise him. Not really a fair benchmark to compare a 12 year old with.
She got better grades than Dumbledore did at her age, was beating the young Tom Riddle with a time turner in class, and beat Harry and Draco in the first battle, with neither a mysterious dark side nor military training. It was Hermione who knew more than than Draco and Harry how to properly make use of her army. It was Hermione who formed and led a band of Mighty Heroes.
It was Hermione who was fundamentally decent and had a moral rudder. A leader, brilliant, brave, and good. As long as she lived, it was clear that the future would belong to Hermione. No sparkling required.
It was Hermione who knew more than than Draco and Harry how to properly make use of her army.
In fairness, it was Quirrell who gave her the idea. She was flailing until he spoke to her and then assigned a deliberately chosen group of people to be her army.
Draco was confused.
Therefore, something he believed was fiction.
Granger should not have been able to do all that.
Therefore, she probably hadn’t.
I promise not to help General Granger in any way that the two of you don’t know about.
With sudden horrified realization, Draco swept papers out of the way, hunting through the mess on his desk, until he found it.
And there it was.
Right in the list of people and equipment assigned to each of the three armies.
Curse Professor Quirrell!
Draco had read it and he still hadn’t seen it—
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It was Hermione who formed and led a band of Mighty Heroes.
It was Hermione who inadvertently gave a bunch of 12-year old girls the idea that they should rush headlong into danger against superior opponents, and then was forced to stick with them as damage control.
“Huh,” Lavender said, now looking thoughtful herself. “That’s true. We should do something heroic. I mean heroinic.”
“Um—” said Hannah, which very much expressed Hermione’s own feelings on the subject.
“Well,” said Parvati, “has everyone already been through Dumbledore’s third-floor forbidden corridor? I mean everyone in Gryffindor’s been through it by now—”
“Hold on!” Hermione said desperately. “I don’t want you doing anything dangerous!”
There was a pause while everyone looked at Hermione, who was suddenly realizing, much too late, why Dumbledore hadn’t wanted anyone else to be a hero.
I’m not sure why having won one kind of lottery is more admirable than another. (Getting a good brain from genes vs inheriting useful brain patterns from Tom Riddle).
That’s why I said “in real world terms”. Not a lot of genius horcruxes to bestow in the real world. Or partial transfiguration powers to exercise. Or bigger, harder, longer, and more throbbing midichlorians pulsing through your blood.
Hermione has real world admirable characteristics. Real world Hermiones prosper, and help those around them prosper.
In real world terms, Harry competed at the national level and Hermione didn’t. We saw her getting better grades at a school of magic, are we still talking about real world terms? He was going to be a world famous scientist studying molecular nanotech, and if she had any ambitions beyond passing tests, we don’t know it.
The problem with this notion of seeing story characters in real world terms is that you have to apply it evenly. Translated to real world terms, while a HPJEV hasn’t inherited a genius’ brain patterns, he’s still a prodigy for the ordinary reasons that produce prodigies in the real world. Which is why I spoke of lotteries.
I get what you’re saying, but I dunno, in real world terms Harry competed at the national level and Hermione didn’t. She did better than him at a school of magic.
Even without the enhancements, in real world terms Hermione was the most admirable character. Harry was a young boy with an old genius’s brain patterns and an Oxford professor of science to raise him. Not really a fair benchmark to compare a 12 year old with.
She got better grades than Dumbledore did at her age, was beating the young Tom Riddle with a time turner in class, and beat Harry and Draco in the first battle, with neither a mysterious dark side nor military training. It was Hermione who knew more than than Draco and Harry how to properly make use of her army. It was Hermione who formed and led a band of Mighty Heroes.
It was Hermione who was fundamentally decent and had a moral rudder. A leader, brilliant, brave, and good. As long as she lived, it was clear that the future would belong to Hermione. No sparkling required.
In fairness, it was Quirrell who gave her the idea. She was flailing until he spoke to her and then assigned a deliberately chosen group of people to be her army.
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It was Hermione who inadvertently gave a bunch of 12-year old girls the idea that they should rush headlong into danger against superior opponents, and then was forced to stick with them as damage control.
I’m not sure why having won one kind of lottery is more admirable than another. (Getting a good brain from genes vs inheriting useful brain patterns from Tom Riddle).
That’s why I said “in real world terms”. Not a lot of genius horcruxes to bestow in the real world. Or partial transfiguration powers to exercise. Or bigger, harder, longer, and more throbbing midichlorians pulsing through your blood.
Hermione has real world admirable characteristics. Real world Hermiones prosper, and help those around them prosper.
In real world terms, Harry competed at the national level and Hermione didn’t. We saw her getting better grades at a school of magic, are we still talking about real world terms? He was going to be a world famous scientist studying molecular nanotech, and if she had any ambitions beyond passing tests, we don’t know it.
The problem with this notion of seeing story characters in real world terms is that you have to apply it evenly. Translated to real world terms, while a HPJEV hasn’t inherited a genius’ brain patterns, he’s still a prodigy for the ordinary reasons that produce prodigies in the real world. Which is why I spoke of lotteries.
I get what you’re saying, but I dunno, in real world terms Harry competed at the national level and Hermione didn’t. She did better than him at a school of magic.