Quote:Sympathetic and cooperative teachers.
How did Hayate not get hopelessly behind during her stretch in and out of the hospital?
Quote:'Entrance examinations? What are those?'
How'd she manage to swing both her TSAB work and her classwork until she simply moved on to Mid and a military career?
Probably with a side order of all-night study sessions with Nanoha and Fate.
Quote:"Don't lie! Bad children get The Fist!"
Right now Hayate is sitting in the hot seat of what seems to be the most exciting outfit to be a part of in the TSAB, and she certainly didn't get there by just being So Doggone Nice.
More seriously, this is merely circling back to the question under discussion in the first place.
I'll agree that FHN are all considerably sharper than average, as well as more mature. I suspect that there's at least a correlation with magical power/ability, given what's been said about Intelligent Devices' roles.
But 'genius' is, IMHO, putting it too strongly.
Ja, -n
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