Steven Zuber

Like only from Harry's early naive take on coral, where he's still like super smitten three way, three, three way wedding him, the time Turner and coral is coral.

Right.

Uh,

Hermione, every time I reread that passage where she trembles and then her face relaxes and she says, no, she's struggling.

Do I disobey an authority and fail a test and lose a point?

Or do I hurt somebody?

And Harry doesn't know why he wants to clap yet, but he learns later or he realizes later.

It's like she didn't shock people in the Milgram experiments.

She was one of the minority fraction of people who wouldn't at least shock the person once.

And she's a paragon of virtue, and it's amazing and beautiful.

And the reason Quirrell's wrong is because...

If the scene had gone differently and Hermione was more combative with her professor, she could have said, I will happily exchange a simple strike hex with anyone you select in the class.

We can do a mock duel.

I will fight somebody fair.

And Hermione would do that.

She does it in the battles and everything.

She's not opposed to violence, period.

She's opposed to hitting somebody who's not trying to hurt her.

And so that's where when Harry thinks that Quirrell's right, Harry's wrong.

uh so i i like that because harry's realizations of those source develop more complexity as we move through the story uh but you know like i said this is the first time so yeah