Yeah, and now it is time for my issues to show up. ^_^
Even if there were a lot of girls who banded together to tease her (and I am not arguing against this, because I went through it), unless she is ncredibly unlucky in her classmates, there are usually one or two other people in the same situation: ostracized for absolutely nothing. And that makes me wonder about Hermione's future, had she not gone on to Hogwarts. If she did not in fact have a minor pack of her own, the outcasts, for lack of a better term, then she might have been headed down a very, very bad path. I have a friend who did some research on school shootings and some of the things that instigate them, and learned that a group of kids being teased by a larger group... the kids in the small group are not the ones you have to worry about. It's the lone child who is ostracized and picked on that you need to approach. Not saying Hermione would have gone violent or anything. Just that I wonder about her state of mind if she was a true loner.
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Date: 2005-10-15 06:27 pm (UTC)From:Even if there were a lot of girls who banded together to tease her (and I am not arguing against this, because I went through it), unless she is ncredibly unlucky in her classmates, there are usually one or two other people in the same situation: ostracized for absolutely nothing. And that makes me wonder about Hermione's future, had she not gone on to Hogwarts. If she did not in fact have a minor pack of her own, the outcasts, for lack of a better term, then she might have been headed down a very, very bad path. I have a friend who did some research on school shootings and some of the things that instigate them, and learned that a group of kids being teased by a larger group... the kids in the small group are not the ones you have to worry about. It's the lone child who is ostracized and picked on that you need to approach. Not saying Hermione would have gone violent or anything. Just that I wonder about her state of mind if she was a true loner.