Poll : Hermione's reaction to the news she's a witch, How do you think Hermione reacted? |
 Jul 31 2008, 04:27 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup  Posts: 33 Joined: 10:19am July 31, 2008 Location: New York City   |
I never actually thought about this! I think her reaction would be a mixture of:
AKA almost every option. ;) This post has been edited by xPotterBroadwayx: Jul 31 2008, 04:28 PM -------------------- Faith xx [Avatar credit to fer_keeper.]
Of course it is happening in your head, Harry. But why on Earth should that mean it isn't real? |
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Aug 1 2008, 08:40 AM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 190 Joined: 2:50am April 2, 2008 Location: Rome, Italy. so far it seems decidedly muggle. |
hermione would difinitely have thot it was logical, since she is smart and she must have noticed that she could do things no one else could do. she had probably been seeking explanations for years already. i would want to hear some of the things she came up with!!
she would also wonder if she could read about it, because that is what hermione does to prepare herself for anything new she encounters. this is a great poll -------------------- "You... This isn't a criticism, Harry! But you do... sort of... I mean--don't you think you've got a bit of a -- a -- saving people thing?"
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Aug 3 2008, 04:47 AM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 33 Joined: 8:27am June 10, 2008 |
I want to know more about it too. Interesting topic. I never even thought about this.
Well, I think she would have been glad to find an explanation and would have asked the person telling her a million questions. She must have been kind of scared at first. A completely new world about which she knows nothing. Being uninformed must be Hermione's least favourite thing.  But then she would be thrilled and buy all the books she could find in Diagon Alley and read all about it. I think that is why she is such a know-it-all; all she knows of the magical world is what she has read, if what she has read is be wrong or doesn't apply to the situation she would be completely clueless. Her books is her only security in her new world.
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Aug 3 2008, 05:25 AM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 157 Joined: 6:00pm May 31, 2008 Location: In a dark tunnel is where you'll find me, underneath the roots of bad tempered tree |
I think receiving the letter was just the confimation she needed. I am sure she was aware that her abilities were magical, being the bookworm that she is, but living in a muggle world she would have probably dismissed this 'ability' as nonsense-along with the majority of the muggle population.
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Aug 6 2008, 04:52 PM
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Ron Weasley's #2 squeeze  Posts: 2,807 Joined: 11:00pm July 13, 2007 Location: Ottery St. Catchpole  |
QUOTE(chocolateisnotforbreakfast @ Jul 29 2008, 11:57 PM)  I voted for "I thought it must be something like that" I agree. She's probably dreamed of a way to escape for a long time She's doing this accidental magic and thinking this may very well be her way out.I always imagined Hermione as secretly longing to get away from her regular school... She was probably made fun of for being so intelligent and so well-liked by teachers. She longed for a new start somewhere, longed for it enough to face the fear of being new at something among others who had been surrounded by it for their whole lives. --------------------  Win-gar-dium Levi-o-sa Ron Weasley: He Does it Anyway. |
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Aug 6 2008, 05:56 PM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 131 Joined: 7:18am May 15, 2005 |
I think Hermione's love of books that EXPLAIN who she is proably comes from the fact they EXPLAIN who she is. You have to feel REALLY REALLY ODD as a Muggle-born (unless you're a socipath like voldemort) and maybe even a little scared of things that happen unexpectedly around you. And then BOOM here's your answer to all of it. I think her love of books, Hermione as we always known her, came not from a previous love of books but precisely BECAUSE she always knew something was different about her and this (her wizarding text) were a key to understanding perhaps something that perplexed her all her life. We don't honestly know if Hermione's muggle school experience was as fullfilling or successful as her magical one. I expect not, hence her excitement and 'gung ho' attitude about having a chance to fit somewhere.
We never hear her talking excitedly about non-wizarding related material afterall. We've never even seen her present anything but common knowledge of Muggles. So her love of Wizarding text and her vast knowledge of them, I belive, was created at the moment she discovered the key (or what she percieved to be the key) to what made her "different". I think she felt the same fears Harry did (knowing nothing about the Wizarding World) when she entered it. So she overcompensated by cramming her head with all the facts she thought would make her "fit in". Of course they didn't, most of the kids hadn't read what she read. But then she got the opportunity to be exceptional. -------------------- RhondaWeasley
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Aug 9 2008, 06:59 AM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 33 Joined: 8:27am June 10, 2008 |
QUOTE(RhondaWeasley @ Aug 6 2008, 05:56 PM) We never hear her talking excitedly about non-wizarding related material afterall. That's right.  I never thought about that. She seems like the sort of person who would gladly inform you of anything and everything about the places they pass through and the things they see, but she never says a word (not that I can remember anyway) about things not related to the magic world... That indeed suggests that though extremely intelligent she wasn't this bookish before she learned she was a witch.
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Aug 15 2008, 07:22 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 3 Joined: 2:48pm July 30, 2008 |
i think at first she didnt believe it because she hadnt read about it in a book or heard anything about it..ever....and then she asked for proof and then was convinced and then ran for the closest library and took out as many books as she could carry
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Sep 8 2008, 04:08 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 112 Joined: 9:48pm February 3, 2007 Location: Norway |
QUOTE(Blibbering Humdinger @ Jul 30 2008, 09:03 PM) This is definitely a scene I would like to see in the encyclopedia. From Hermione's point of view too I second that! I imagine Hermione starting out with the logical "though it must be something like that", but then going on to some sort of fear of her own ability. Because magic doesn't make any sence! At least not at first, before you learn the laws and limitations of it. The natural response for fear, is books, and once she had read a bit, she would propebly be quite keen to start learning more
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Sep 9 2008, 05:24 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 75 Joined: 2:03pm July 29, 2005 Location: Working for Gred and Forge |
Wow this is really interesting! I think for Hermione, growing up with all these unexplainable things happening around her must have been really difficult. I can imagine her being the sort that catagorically believes magic cannot exist and so telling herself that there logical explanation for all the strange things she does, and searching endlessly through books to find something that makes sense. I'm sure that when she first heard she found it really hard to believe, just like she refuses to believe in luna's stories unless she has proof, however once seeing magic in action i can imagine everything fitting into place for her.
Next, I'm sure would have been panic! A girl who had in the past, always succeeded in accademic areas would be terrified that she would be horribly far behind in terms of magical ability. I think that this, added to her natural love of learning, was why she learnt every book off by heart before starting, simply to give her some form of safety net in the magical world. -------------------- "Just because you've got the emotional rage of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have!" - Hermione OotP
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