Hermione - Harry Potter - How annoying!

[Tahani]

She is just annoying, much more so in the film than the books.

Just watching the Goblet of Fire, and she's 'ooo Victor is so physical... well he isn't loquacious, he likes to watch me study'

she just really grates on me...

Quite Professor - better put than me

@DiseasesoftheSheep- Neville is great when he gets going at school - a new wand that chose him personally no doubt helped (same for Ron who had a cast off from Bill or Charlie to start with), but as a little boy pre Hogwarts Neville showed no signs of magic and had everyone worried until he bounced when he was dropped out of a window.

He was put under a lot of pressure though, so performance anxiety under duress wouldn't have helped, either!

Maisymoo22

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Agreed.

SalemBlackCat4 Yes FreeMasons up to and including level/degree 29 are wonderful and do fantastic Charity work. They know nothing about the 30 and above degrees. It's the separate 30 and above ones, the Illuminati who are so different. It is well documented. Very widely reported from very different sources, including many who left.
I should have made it clearer sorry! The 1-29 degree FreeMasons do wonderful work.

Fuck me but this thread took an odd turn

SalemBlackCat4
I doubt any men have made comments about Hermione like that,

Doubt all you like. I heard them, on television, on a comedy show.

And look at your daft name!!

Maisymoo22 As I said, ages ago in the thread - they are extremely
good entertainment. Obviously people have different tastes. I like the stories. They are very gripping.

People haven't understood that I had to learn about occult rituals and so on for research to improve our counselling of people who had been caught up in this stuff. These people were all badly affected by the names used in Harry Potter Books. At first I was very sceptical and thought it was just a coincidence and a sign of how well the books were written. However, two years of research and study taught me otherwise and opened my eyes to things I would never have dreamed possible.
Perhaps that's the problem here - I'm expecting you to believe me when I introduce something it took me two years of immersive investigation to realise does happen, when at first I could not believe it.

Can you be more specific Ellyess ?

One of my 'smothered' was referred to as Hermione by her father. I took this to be a slur, because she is referred to and has the image of the 'know it all', but she is badly portrayed in the films, and spends her 'life' suffering misogynistic knock downs.
JK actually quoted as adoring the strength of Hermione and had loved her studious intellectual style, it could be interpreted as a fable of how despite everything she was acknowledged as highly capable witch with spells and potions, history, well all of it.

It's that old chestnut isn't it, if a woman speaks out she's bossy, if a man does he's authoritative or such bollocks

Immersive investigation?

Have you been watching Spooks/the Americans rather than a bit of quidditch?

Damn x-posted. I see you were more specific.
Was this independently directed research?

In all seriousness, have you had insights into coincidence, and was your research measured and proved to be statistically significant when applying appropriates formulas of statistical significance?

Without that it can easily all be down to chance. I am not saying that you didn't do in depth research but has it been statistically proven?

It's hardly a new or revelatory theory, and there have been films of it on TV, conspiracy theorists, same as the da Vinci code, or alien sightings.

I'm happy to listen but where is this independent research published, by which organisation?
I don't doubt that many have got involved in cults and the occult and surely it screws up the mind. JKR used real life ppl like Nicholas flamel the french alchemist, doesn't mean she is privy to something.

What was her incentive do you believe? It's well known that she was turned away from all publishers, so she doesn't seem to have any special privileges, or is she not part of it, but trying to expose it? Where does she fit in?

Ah I like Hermione, she has her flaws (which Harry and the other characters point out a lot) but they'd be useless without her, and she's very caring. I obviously prefer the books/book characters, but agree with what was said previously about Emma being better in the 2 Deathly Hallows films.

And I'm sad everyone hates Harry! He's probably my favourite character, again lots of flaws but he's great - so sassy/sarcastic at times (again, talking about the book characters not film).

I don't hate Harry, and I don't hate Daniel Radcliffe playing him either.
JKR also apparently had the final say on his casting, saying he was her idea of Harry.

I think he was pretty wooden in the first film but I liked the way he grew into the character.

Weasley twins, on the other hand -- nope.

And Neville's "oh no I think I've just killed Harry Potter!" is one of the worst acted bits of the films, up there with Emma Watson's head swirly thing in the ball in Goblets of Fire.

Ellyess I'm a counsellor in a childhood trauma setting and I also have heard things most people would never believe. So easy to disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole and become a bit paranoid though!

Tahani Dolores in who framed tiger rabbit is a good Dolores!
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PsychedelicSheep Yes. Sadly, the people we treated could so easily be called paranoid. They deserved more support than this though and were not paranoid in any other way. We were only researching in the way we research everything else. We all have post-grad professional qualifications and worked in a famous hospital. I do not want to say more because my clients need privacy. Whatever caused their problems, they were remarkably the same and they did not know each other.

What about when Harry cries? He cries really really badly. He cries like he's constipated. He does a weird wide mouth clench which looks more like a grin than a grimace and then makes strange clunky sobbing noises.
I must admit one of my favourite DR acting bits is Aragog dying. When Harry does the pincery thing. I almost warmed to him then.

Deathly Hallows part 1 has just started on stv so I'll be watching EW eyebrows.

but as a little boy pre Hogwarts Neville showed no signs of magic and had everyone worried until he bounced when he was dropped out of a window.

As I say - repeatedly trying to make him show his magic by doing things like dangling him out of a window probably had the opposite effect... Neville never really stood a chance as a kid, constantly compared (unfavourably) to his father and all that.

Ha I'm watching Deathly Hallows Part 1 as im rwading this!

Mine broke for a while. Was a problem with stv. So they eventually put on the itv stream. It's now back to stv hd.

EW rubbish at crying, improved with age, but DR gets first prize def. for worst crying. The scene in the snow under the invisibility cloak embarrassingly awful to watch.

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Hermione’s hair in the first film was all kinds of wrong. It looked like someone had taken a crimper to it then not bothered doing anything else. That hair stylist should have been fired with a book on career advice as a leaving gift

according to the book her hair is supposed to be bushy!
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Love Hermione as a character but agree with comments about EW's overacting. Not sure if it's partly just because she was a huge fan already and was maybe trying too hard?

Also a big fan of movie Luna. I only recently heard the the story behind how the actress was chosen for the part, and thought it was really great!

Would love a GoT style TV adaptation, however so many of the movie actors were so well cast (e.g Snape, Draco, Bellatrix...) I'm not sure new casting could live up to it!!

Could do an animated TV series, that way won't have to worry about them growing too old etc :)