Talk:Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)/@comment-24499270-20150218033141/@comment-1672596-20150305130902

That sounds more like falling for Lockhart, actually, considering that Hermione actually showed disdain for relationships otherwise, and she was basically the bookish type anyways and read people like them (this was even a source of conflict in the first book).

And I agree that those weren't the worst of his wrongs (having Ginny die to save face is definitely worse), but I figured that we should mention those anyways, especially when Gaston by comparison, when he boasted about those things, it's strongly implied that he actually did do the things he boasted about, meaning he definitely would not have committed fraud or ruined memories (and you don't even need magic to destroy someone's memories anyways: Hitting them hard enough in the head to give them permanent brain damage will do the trick).

And actually, Belle fit the description of Jasmine as well, or do I really have to remind you about how she basically insulted her own village in the opening song and seemed to view herself as superior to the others, and a very short temper as evidenced by her stay at Beast's castle on the first night? And honestly, how exactly is knowing what she wants out of life unique to Jasmine anyways? Ariel knew what she wanted out of life, as did Belle. Pretty much ALL of the DPs actually seemed to know what they wanted out of life.