I think you're absolutely right that Hermione in DH isn't going to be worried about failing an exam, but yes, I suspect that failure in some other, more real sense is still likely to be her deepest fear -- she pushes herself so hard to be right.
I like the equality idea for the Mirror of Erised, too. It just now occurred to me to wonder whether any of Hermione's concern for equality for all magical creatures has any (subconscious) connections with something else I've imagined she's wished for, namely, closer ties between the magical and Muggle worlds. It makes sense that Harry has zero interest in his Muggle life before Hogwarts, but Hermione's got to juggle her new world with the parents she loves (assuming she can fix their memories after the war, which I like to believe is the case).
And, isn't it neat when people in the real world turn out to share interests like this? A few years ago, I was at a lake house (in your current general vicinity, heh -- different lake) with a bunch of people. Admittedly, the group was mostly people from my guy's undergrad college's speculative fiction club, so I probably shouldn't have been that surprised, but -- I smoked out a whole nest of LM Bujold fans. I'd never had anyone outside the internet to talk to about that (those) fandom(s) before.
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Date: 2015-11-29 04:50 am (UTC)I think you're absolutely right that Hermione in DH isn't going to be worried about failing an exam, but yes, I suspect that failure in some other, more real sense is still likely to be her deepest fear -- she pushes herself so hard to be right.
I like the equality idea for the Mirror of Erised, too. It just now occurred to me to wonder whether any of Hermione's concern for equality for all magical creatures has any (subconscious) connections with something else I've imagined she's wished for, namely, closer ties between the magical and Muggle worlds. It makes sense that Harry has zero interest in his Muggle life before Hogwarts, but Hermione's got to juggle her new world with the parents she loves (assuming she can fix their memories after the war, which I like to believe is the case).
And, isn't it neat when people in the real world turn out to share interests like this? A few years ago, I was at a lake house (in your current general vicinity, heh -- different lake) with a bunch of people. Admittedly, the group was mostly people from my guy's undergrad college's speculative fiction club, so I probably shouldn't have been that surprised, but -- I smoked out a whole nest of LM Bujold fans. I'd never had anyone outside the internet to talk to about that (those) fandom(s) before.