[ SECRET POST #2396 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2396 ⌋

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[Jason Segel, in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"]


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[The Cinema Snob]


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[The Fall]















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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

You know what, I was actually a bit too old when Harry potter came out - but you know, I was glad to see a girl who was smart and thirsty for knowledge and unapologetic for that. Intelligence and (academic) ambition are looked down on in many teenage groups, and yeah, while Hermione might seem a bit stuck up every now and then, I'll take her any day over young characters who just care about dating or football.

[truxillogical]

On one hand, yeah, it was great to see a girl who got to be smart first and foremost, but who wasn't just consigned to the back of the room.

On the other hand, it always bugged me that Hermione was presented as "smart" but she wasn't really "thirsty for knowledge." Especially in the first four or five books, when she would flat out refuse any knowledge that didn't come from a textbook.

It's something that only bugged me when I got up to book four, but now...eh. It's like in Dresden Files, how Butters got the concept of a bookish geek right: a person who's "thirsty for knowledge" isn't the one who's constantly showing off how much they know--it's the person constantly asking questions.