Padma has apparently impressed very few people.

[keshwyn]

Right now, it appears the only folks (in a position to judge) who haven't completely written her off as a loss are Seamus and Dolohov. I'm not even sure Dolohov actually believes she can be rattled sufficiently for her to get her head out of the sand, just that he has to try, possibly because she's still a student which means he's responsible for her.

Really, I think Dolohov's comment is the most damning - the (entirely correct) observation that she's thinking like a child in school (and the unstated assumption that she must therefore be treated like a child until she learns better) would have had *me* climbing the walls when I was her age.

I wonder if she actually doesn't *want* to be an adult. She lacks any real practice in the school of hard knocks, which most of the rest of her class has had to suffer through, and that lack is showing.

Hydra and Barty have clearly written her off. (And Barty, wow, terrifyingly effective tutor there with a whole lot of armor-piercing questions...!) I don't think Lana actually *respects* her at all. And Sally-Anne could totally wipe the floor with her - particularly if she can train out of her flinch.[*]

But...yeah. I wonder if she'll survive the year.

[*] I am a wholly unapologetic Sally-Anne partisan.