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Harry has said that Hermione is his moral center. Is she? Should she be?
I have mixed feelings. She's hardly a paragon, and if she's going to continue to develop into her own character instead of a satellite of Harry, Eliezer's going to outline her faults in more detail. We've seen this with Harry. Every time he undergoes a trial, readers learn more and more how fallible he is, and why.
Thoughts?
Hermione is far from perfect, but she's nonetheless the most traditionally-moral person at Hogwarts. I think Harry is correct not to want to emulate her entirely, yet still respect her enough to ask her advice on morally ambiguous issues.
""And," her voice said, "if you want to break school rules or something, you can ask me about it, I promise I won't just say no.""
perhaps eliezer's is not outlining but "fixing" her faults. by the end of ch75, hermione seems to have experienced a crisis of faith and become more morally harry.
Remember that being a good person, to Eliezer, is not just 'shut up and multiply'. For humans, it also requires having the sort of personality that does not allow you to pass a person in need without helping them. Hermione is such a person, and Harry realizes that he needs that if he doesn't want to stray from the path / become a dark wizard.