It might have been kind of interesting if Harry hid the answers from Ron. Like, if Ron was complaining about how Harry always had all the luck and then he wound up with the book that had the answers. Harry might win the prize the first day, and Ron could not believe he did it honestly, and then Harry would hide the book out of pride. It really wouldn't be OOC to do that or be oversensitive about it. The truth could come out later on.
Hermione's reaction to the book is, I'd say, a bit like her reaction to the twins' stuff. She always puts their creativity down because it's for jokes even though it's obviously advanced. In OotP there's a moment, I think, where she almost slips into admiring it before she covers it up again.
And of course I never have a problem with Hermione being insecure if she's not helping everyone. I did a post on that once about how in OotP especially Hermione is constantly going between helping and sabotaging everyone. I don't think all of it is intentional on JKR's part, but there's a really pattern of Hermione making things difficult while pulling the strings. Which makes sense for her character and shows up pretty early. It's sometimes important (especially in CoS and PS) for Hermione to be the type of person who hangs onto information for as long as possible because she has to be the one that knows the most.
Prophecy is sometimes said to be a fraud. I mean, Trelawny's class doesn't really seem to be just about her being bad, it's a joke on all fortune-telling (with ditzy girls believing in it and Hermione pointing out it doesn't work--is that Hermione being "closed-minded"? I'm not sure...it's hard to believe it is given that we know Trelawny really is a fake and Harry and Ron fake their way through classes and nobody can tell the difference). Then Dumbledore's whole thing about the prophecy is that it's only true because Voldemort believed it...even while he himself is basing his whole plan on it.
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Re: Part One
Date: 2008-10-03 08:58 pm (UTC)Hermione's reaction to the book is, I'd say, a bit like her reaction to the twins' stuff. She always puts their creativity down because it's for jokes even though it's obviously advanced. In OotP there's a moment, I think, where she almost slips into admiring it before she covers it up again.
And of course I never have a problem with Hermione being insecure if she's not helping everyone. I did a post on that once about how in OotP especially Hermione is constantly going between helping and sabotaging everyone. I don't think all of it is intentional on JKR's part, but there's a really pattern of Hermione making things difficult while pulling the strings. Which makes sense for her character and shows up pretty early. It's sometimes important (especially in CoS and PS) for Hermione to be the type of person who hangs onto information for as long as possible because she has to be the one that knows the most.
Prophecy is sometimes said to be a fraud. I mean, Trelawny's class doesn't really seem to be just about her being bad, it's a joke on all fortune-telling (with ditzy girls believing in it and Hermione pointing out it doesn't work--is that Hermione being "closed-minded"? I'm not sure...it's hard to believe it is given that we know Trelawny really is a fake and Harry and Ron fake their way through classes and nobody can tell the difference). Then Dumbledore's whole thing about the prophecy is that it's only true because Voldemort believed it...even while he himself is basing his whole plan on it.