Some eleven-year-olds might be that way, but if your sample consists mostly of relatives of geniuses, it’s going to be pretty skewed, I would think.
There’s no causal link between Harry and Draco and Hermione and Blaise and… I dunno who else people are claiming is unrealistic. Still, four unrelated genius-level children out of the, I don’t know, one hundred first year Hogwarts students? It’s not entirely unfair to see that as statistically unlikely, even if theoretically possible.
I don’t get the impression that Draco is especially brilliant (for a real eleven year old, he would be, but Eliezer’s characters don’t act eleven in general,) but rather that he’s especially well trained. He might be a one-in-a-hundred intellect, but he’s had an education that not one muggle in millions gets.
Blaise is clever, but likewise learned from an exceptionally duplicitous mother, and had Dumbledore passing him notes.
Hermione of course has great scholarly talents in canon. Harry—I’ve seen people argue that he would have been a genius in canon if the abuse didn’t warp him, and here he obviously had an excellent environment for developing mental abilities. But Harry does see himself as an anomaly. Some people here (apparently not believing nurture can explain that much) have a theory to account for him. As for Draco and Blaise, we know for a fact the former had extensive training. On a meta level, increasing Harry’s intelligence required a smarter Voldemort and thus a smarter Dumbledore. Lucius Malfoy then needed smarts in order to produce a more-or-less canonical starting point for the story. And his erstwhile (?) Lord would not pick an idiot as a servant (not if he could find a way to control a smart minion.) Notice this means that, if MoR!Voldemort affected Harry’s intelligence, three out of the four names you mention would have an indirect causal link in-story as well as in reality.
Their being smarter on average than Muggles doesn’t seem particularly well supported by the story so far, except insofar as the average intelligence of characters in the story is raised by virtue of being written by Eliezer.
Some eleven-year-olds might be that way, but if your sample consists mostly of relatives of geniuses, it’s going to be pretty skewed, I would think.
There’s no causal link between Harry and Draco and Hermione and Blaise and… I dunno who else people are claiming is unrealistic. Still, four unrelated genius-level children out of the, I don’t know, one hundred first year Hogwarts students? It’s not entirely unfair to see that as statistically unlikely, even if theoretically possible.
Keep in mind that Blaise’s plan was Dumbledore’s.
I don’t get the impression that Draco is especially brilliant (for a real eleven year old, he would be, but Eliezer’s characters don’t act eleven in general,) but rather that he’s especially well trained. He might be a one-in-a-hundred intellect, but he’s had an education that not one muggle in millions gets.
Blaise is clever, but likewise learned from an exceptionally duplicitous mother, and had Dumbledore passing him notes.
Hermione of course has great scholarly talents in canon. Harry—I’ve seen people argue that he would have been a genius in canon if the abuse didn’t warp him, and here he obviously had an excellent environment for developing mental abilities. But Harry does see himself as an anomaly. Some people here (apparently not believing nurture can explain that much) have a theory to account for him. As for Draco and Blaise, we know for a fact the former had extensive training. On a meta level, increasing Harry’s intelligence required a smarter Voldemort and thus a smarter Dumbledore. Lucius Malfoy then needed smarts in order to produce a more-or-less canonical starting point for the story. And his erstwhile (?) Lord would not pick an idiot as a servant (not if he could find a way to control a smart minion.) Notice this means that, if MoR!Voldemort affected Harry’s intelligence, three out of the four names you mention would have an indirect causal link in-story as well as in reality.
They have magic, and they are physically sturdier than Muggles. Maybe they are also on average smarter than Muggles.
Which constitutes evidence for Terry Tao being a wizard.
Their being smarter on average than Muggles doesn’t seem particularly well supported by the story so far, except insofar as the average intelligence of characters in the story is raised by virtue of being written by Eliezer.