Steven Zuber

It is.

And taking it waxing poetic for a second, Hermione doesn't even have to be real for her to win against the temptations to evil in our lives.

I get it, our lives are more complicated and yada, yada, but you can still choose to do the good thing.

And as Harry says, it wouldn't have even have occurred to Hermione to build Azkaban.

You say everybody's evil.

Everyone's just like, you know who inside, but that's just false as a simple point of fact.

And I think that's when Quirrell starts to realize like, okay, yeah, something needs to be done about this Hermione Granger problem.

I'm not going to be able to just talk her out of it.

That is my memory of the chronology is a little dated at this point, but that's when he starts kind of doing the psychological warfare on her, right?

Yeah, shortly thereafter.

I mean, I think, you know, we've got, we've got Sauron, the 20 foot Titan who, you know, wields the power of the ring and we've got a four foot Hobbit.

Well, you've hit the nail on the head.

I mean, the problem with it is that people think that the stories about the magic are true.

Like, you know, we can draw the same wisdom and the same morality from Hermione or Frodo and Sam and that we can from Jesus.

And we can do it without believing that there used to be a Mount Doom.

Right.

We don't have to believe that, you know.

Hermione fought the dread Voldemort in the halls of Hogwarts.

We can just say, no, it was a beautiful story and we can take wisdom from stories.

The problem comes in when you pretend it's all real and all the nonsense that falls out of that.