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And it's especially surreal to Hermione, because she has eidetic memory.
I don't think it's quite eidetic - she says as much herself. It's just ridiculously good. I think if she had literally perfect recall of all her experiences, rather than merely amazing recall of information she consciously tried to absorb, she would be less of a normal 11-year old girl. For example, she'd have perfect recall of every mistake she'd ever made, and every time anyone had ever hurt her. I imagine she would be much warier of doing anything with the potential to leave traumatic memories.
With that said, it's worth noting that no-one has ever proved having long-term eidetic memory in repeated scientific tests, so all our speculations on the subject must rely on anecdotal evidence and fictional examples.
It takes her a few seconds to remember the Asch Conformity Experiment and that was a long enough delay to be frightening.
Perhaps she is only ridiculously exhausted, low on brain juices.
She is not used to being low on brain juices because she has never been either undernourished or pushed so hard. It is a novel experience, which can be frightening.
Or, recently created memories esp of false-memory-charm origin are likely to be in the forefront, and push everything else to the background.