Hermione was not the slightest bit happy with this judgment. I want to be a Gryffindor, she repeated stubbornly. Knowledge, books, studying, I want to do well, of course, everyone does - but there's no point in being smart if you can't be brave! She had to explain, she had to make it understand ... if you went to a House it would magnify those things about you that were most closely aligned to that House's philosophy. Just because she was more Ravenclaw now didn't mean that being in Gryffindor wouldn't make her braver, and she wanted that, more than anything else -