Re: Horcrux Scorecard...

In a speech called osfca35b8716ghnbmvl7eekjurenc7uo39@xxxxxxx,
Matt Frisch (matuse73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) spake thusly:

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:14:53 -0500, Ron Hunter
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scribed into the ether:

Brian Wakeling wrote:
In a speech called esdaa3parcfjrcljhtja5msc0h05cciv0q@xxxxxxx,
Matt Frisch (matuse73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) spake thusly:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:28:21 -0700, Jane Grey
<jane.grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scribed into the ether:

On 23 Jul, 21:10, Matt Frisch <matus...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:16:55 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx> scribed into the ether:





"IsaacKuo" <mech...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...spoilers for Deathly Hallows...
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Isn't it strange though, that Ravenclaw, supposedly where all
the
brainy ones end up missed out on Riddle, Dumbledore, and
Granger.
maybe because they were more cunning or brave than they were
clever?

Besides I'm not sure Hermy's intellect in itself is anything
special,
more her bookish tendencies have meant she knows all the
answers.
It's more than just that. She's able to conjure up the pimple
charm
thing on the DADA roll sheet that to the best of our knowledge,
even Madame Pomfrey (who has to be at least as good as the
healers
at St. Mungos) cannot remove. The girl is going to go to her
grave
with SNEAK written on her face.

Sure she spends a huge amount of time studying, but she also has
an
uncanny knack for understanding things. She doesn't just parrot
knowledge, she easily and rapidly assimilates true understanding.
There's serious brain horsepower going on there.


I think Hermione's not being in Ravenclaw might be due to things
like her sticking to the accepted and established wisdom, and not
challenging it or developing it herself. She sticks rigidly to the
instructions in the potions handbook in HBP, even when Harry's
annotated copy gives far better results. She does not seem able to
accept to even consider that the Deathly Hallows could exist,
until
considerable evidence has built up in their favour. She can take
current information and knowledge and use it in an applied way,
but
she does not seem willing or able to further the boundaries of
knowledge herself. I suspect that Ravenclaws would be able to do
this - I think Hermione would be stumped by the entry questions to
the Ravenclaw common room, as they are more riddles to be worked
out, than questions to be answered from a known set of
information.

Hermione is a perfect example of a person with a great memory, and
a
drive to learn, but with minimal imagination.

Rita Skeeter's animagus. Lupin's werewolfiness, Reading between the
lines at Umbridge's opening speech in OotP, Identifying the
basilisk,
spotting Voldemort's attempt to lure Harry to the Ministry in
OotP....it goes on and on.


Those are all examples of making use of information already available.
It does not take imagination to put two and two together and come up
with four. It takes imagination to put two and two together and come
up with five.

--
Brian Wakeling
www.sabremeister.me.uk/index.html
www.livejournal.com/users/sabremeister
There's a secret to good cooking.
I've no idea what it is though.


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