Friday, October 21, 2022

understanding hermione

understanding hermione
in the book series harry potter a clever joke was when hermione expressed worry about the risk "we might die or worse get expelled". it is a clever joke and balanced by ron's reply about priorities. however despite the author merely meant a joke, more informatin explains that concept.
in sg1 series s7 the pilot told sam carter we might fall into the sun or worse." this is vague what could be worse than burning to death in hot star... including the pain of the hot approaching? so she asked worse? pilot explained dying now. so we see somehow "worse" when comparing two deaths a short instant painless death is worse due to sooner... yet the painful burning death seems worse? we add the element of shame. both ways losing race and defeat. contrast fall in sun due to sabotage, not my error, but if our repairs failed and caused explosion that is the shame of "our failure" that adds intense shame to one of the deaths not death alone.
similarly in the joke of hermione her character may have been sincere that her shame at expulsion and her sadness of losing her goal would be the degree of pain that people "beg for death to end the pain" this described hermione's character's character. she would feel such intense shame she would wish for death to end the pain so we could either die in danger which is bad, or... worse suffer a shame so intense that we would wish for death. so this joke realy contains another level that described her responsible character the part of intense shame which ron could not imagine kuz he would not feel if expelled.
the cleverness in sg1 is protected by only revealing ten minutes later a similar idea "i would rather die than go on your ship" a shame so intense they would beg for death to stop the pain. that also gives meaning to the two example of worse.
this is not a small error like the following poem:
__rhyming thawtd
time to bake frozen....
chicken, garry thawt.

poked it, he was wrong
it had not-yet thawd.

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