[CholeraJoe]

Hermione has her magical flaws. She’s horrible at riding brooms. She had to be on a Thestral during the decoy operation. She can cast a patronus but as Harry says, “She always has trouble with that one.”

[EmilyGeiger]

Have you read the add’l books Quidditch Through the Ages or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? If you have are they worth reading? I thought about putting them on reserve, I’ve never read them, in fact it was just recently that I found out about them.

DH movie doesn’t come out until 2010, HBP comes out in 2008; I predict the encyclopedia will come out in 2009.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Hermione has her magical flaws. She’s horrible at riding brooms. She had to be on a Thestral during the decoy operation. She can cast a patronus but as Harry says, “She always has trouble with that one.”

Good point. But in this book, Hermione comes to the rescue so often and so miraculously, Rowling almost made her a Deus Ex Machina device.