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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3101636" data-attributes="member: 177">Note carefully that I didn't say Harry is "stronger", in a magical (or any other) sense.  I said he had her beat on crucial points of character in terms of active, adventuring wizardry.  In short - Harry is more proactive, and takes far more and greater risks, than Hermione.  Given her druthers, Hermione would sit and do her studying, work in the library, and become an excellent technical wizard, but would never do much of anything.  Harry is headstrong, and largely incapable of keeping himself out of trouble.  So, while he's got less technical knowledge, he ends up with a lot more in terms of practical application.To quote Pete from The Muppets Take Manhattan - "Peoples is peoples."  And, as for cutting out the immaturity - let us note that Harry is immature - as in, he's only a kid!  If he was mature, he'd not be someone the target audience would identify with.  Not only would he be less interesting, he'd not be very believeable.As for Snape... we don't get a good look inot his head.  I would not be too surprised if there's a lot more to his behavior than meets the eye.  Kids at Hogwarts seem to dodge the emotional trauma that comes from most simple physical damage.  It's the emotional stuff that matters - falling off the broom is far less an issue than having Malfoy tease you, I guess.  It's something that marks the Potter universe (and most fictional universes where "adventure" is a major element) as different from our own.  Mind you, it gets to everyone eventually - see Mad Eye Moody as an example of a wizard who ends up slightly cracked by the trauma.  Most of them, like the Weasley family, seem to manage just fine.</blockquote>

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