What do you think are Hermione's insecurities?

Hello potheads

As we all know,

Even though Hermione got to destroy a Horcrux, us readers didn't get to know the more vulnerable side of Hermione, but Ron did (the lucky dog!). What do you think might have happened in the Chamber of Secrets, what are her insecurities? We all know about Ron. What about her? Kindly show your guesswork.

Also, why do think JKR always refrained from letting us know more about Hermione (like her family life, her emotions etc.). Give reasons:)

Oooh, I forgot about the boggart and the mirror of Erised. Her boggart shows that her greatest fear is failure. But that was in third year (I think). So do you think it would've changed? Cos I think she was really one-dimensional (bookworm) through out the first 3 years. She changed post-HBP.

Interesting.... I'll get back to this in a while :)

Edited by chhilt - 22 January 2010 at 5:50pm

Really interesting topic.....will surely answer.

hmm interesting, i have to thnk about ths one!

OMG what an amazing topic!!! Hermione is one of my most favouritestest characters. She is my muse!

Well, I don't have time else would type a longer post but here is what I think:

Her insecurities? Well they were ripped open in GoF during the whole Yule Ball phase. She's insecure about her looks. She doesn't look that good physically and she is very insecure about that. Also, dring that phase (which went right up till HBP even) she does not think that Ron will ever like her in that way..that he won't see her as a 'girl' and she felt that he always only thought of her only as 'one of the guys'. The whole Krum issue and the Yule Ball debacle basically just scream that out!

In the third book, her boggart is 'failure'. I think as she matured over the years, her boggart remained the same i.e failure bu the reasons for her failure changed.

Earlier, the kid-Hermione was afraid of failing in her exams and letting herself and her professors down and not being able to look at the professors in the face with pride, due to that.

From GoF till HBP, this failure now is manifested through her feelings for Ron and all of the above that I said. Also with her facing death (majorly y'know) in OotP and then again in HBP,  this fear of failure got manifested as her failure to protect friends and family.

Finally, in DH, she realizes what she must do to take down Voldemort--she understands her role in the Trio's quest for Horcruxes. Her role is that of the brains..she has to find all the answers, do all the research, think of new innovative spells that would protect them.

And she looks up a lot to Harry and she fears failing him in DH. Same goes for Ron. Also, she fears that she will fail to protect her parents esp in DH with all her memory charms.

Poor girl..the memory charm that she did to her parents must have kicked her in the gut and she had to live through all of that!

I will forever be annoyed with JKR for cutting out Hermione's Horcrux moment when she gave so much screenspace (or page-space :P) to Ron's. I think her Horcrux would probably have shown her losing everyone..to death...to madness...Ron leaving her...Harry succumbing to Voldemort, her parents dying and its all her fault (esp this because she was sooo guilty during the memory charm thingy) and I think as a last resort the Horcrux might even have shown Ron going all psycho and Tom-Riddle-ish like he was when he left the Trio because of the Locket's urging.

Well I said it wouldn't be a long post but its alsready become medium size by now, so I must quit typing!

Hey Thanks! Hermione is my fav too! And you type as much as you want hehe:)
I love your nice detailed reply...
She's insecure about her looks yeah. She's very petty and jealous but hardly shows all this. Actually she's not all that she's made out to be. And in HBP she's a typical teenager in love.
I am mad at JKR for cutting out that part of the book. That would've at least helped in getting a better idea of her character. Not fair that Ron was given a moment to shine and she wasn't. In the HP community, especially on Leaky so many people misunderstand her completely. Btw, do you think she changed in HBP? And did you like the change?

Haha, chhilt! What's up:) long time no see:(
You can still come back to reply! Btw do you think JKR did the right thing by cutting out that part of the books? Cos I personally wanted to read what happened in the chamber of secrets.