Hermione Granger - Part II

[Maple_and_PheonixFeather]

Hm, I always thought her Patronus was an otter because they were clever and JKR's favourite animal is an otter...but I suppose the Ron thing makes sense too.

I like the idea of a dolphin a lot, actually, and it's a water animal, like an otter.
What about some sort of cat, maybe not like an Umbridge cat, but like a wild cat, like a cougar, or maybe a lioness.

[Equinox Chick]

Hm, I always thought her Patronus was an otter because they were clever and JKR's favourite animal is an otter...but I suppose the Ron thing makes sense too.

The connection with Ron and the Weasleys isn't just because of the place they live, but because weasels and otters are part of the Mustelidae family (as are ferrets ...)

Neil - fabulous acronym. Gives great comic potential and hope to all the Dramione shippers (and faux Dramiones, like me) - which probably isn't what you were hoping for at all.

~Carole~

[welshdevondragon]

I was wondering- do you think Hermione would ever get involved in Muggle politics? Not as in running for office but just involved with something like Amnesty International? Or do you think Muggle-borns essentially "choose" a world to be part of and sort of forget about the Muggle world?

Given how much she cares about house elves I think it likely that, had she not been a witch, she would have been heavily involved in Amnesty and don't see why being a witch would prevent her continuing?

Also would she be interested in Muggle politics? If she was, what do you think her politics would be in early 21st century Britain?

[AidaLuthien]

I was wondering- do you think Hermione would ever get involved in Muggle politics? Not as in running for office but just involved with something like Amnesty International? Or do you think Muggle-borns essentially "choose" a world to be part of and sort of forget about the Muggle world?

I think there are probably laws against interference by magical people into the Muggle world - at least at the running for office level. I could see her wanting to get involved with Amnesty International or something similar, but her life seems quite busy enough, don't you think?

As for the second part of this question, I don't think Muggle-borns have a choice because their genes make them witches and wizards. So they don't chose. I doubt they really 'forgot' about the Muggle world, but it would be difficult to remain a full part of the Muggle world, even if someone wanted to.

Given how much she cares about house elves I think it likely that, had she not been a witch, she would have been heavily involved in Amnesty and don't see why being a witch would prevent her continuing?

I'm not sure an 11 year old would have been heavily involved in Amnesty International. We don't really know how politically engaged Hermoine was before the House Elf issue - it could have been the thing that woke her up to politics.

Again, there might be laws about wizards and witches in Muggle politics, even in advocacy groups. If only so that the magical people can't overrun Muggle politics.

For instance, say Amnesty International has a meeting with an important head of state who decides against helping them. Muggles would just have to accept this. A witch could Imperius the head of state and force him to help.

So I think there would be laws against how involved magical people could be in Muggle organizations, particularly political ones. Rather, there Should be laws. The wizarding community is infamously out of touch with Muggles, so maybe they wouldn't think to ban it until something like that happened.

Also would she be interested in Muggle politics? If she was, what do you think her politics would be in early 21st century Britain?

I think Muggle politics would be less interesting to her than wizarding politics because it affects her own life in a significantly smaller amount, particularly once she's graduated from Hogwarts and living as an adult in the magical world.

In addition, I think that British politics, generally, aren't wildly insane. Yes, the shift from a Labour government to a coalition Lib-Dem/Conservative was fairly big, but it wasn't like they elected... I don't know the BNP or someone like that. The three major parties aren't really radical.

I don't know enough about British politics to make a sure bet as to Hermoine's.