Oh, TV Tropes...!

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

Quite honestly, the Harry Potter stuff on that site has gotten to the point where I can't read it because just about everything is fawning over how great and super-special-awesome the series is, oh, and how Snape is an evil douchebag who wanted to get Harry and James killed so he could keep Lily. But this... this makes me want to scream:

"Hermione... [is] one of the smartest and more pro-active females in the whole Harry Potter canon and English literature in general"

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

How could they make such a claim?! Hermione is a better heroine than, say, Tiffany Aching?! How about Eliza Doolittle?! And I'm sure you could come up with other examples.

No, no, in Harry Potter it seems fairly obvious that the most powerful women in the series are antagonists. Sure, Hermione's perfectly independent and capable, but in the last several books it's like she becomes Harry's servant because he's too lazy to do anything himself!

God damn it, Harry Potter wouldn't bother me so much if everyone didn't insist it was the greatest thing since sliced bread!

Comments

[the-bitter-word.livejournal.com]

I wondered if this had to do with a particularly pro-Jo owner of the site, and found this opinion piece (http://tintower.co.uk/2011/04/16/the-failure-and-ridicule-of-tv-tropes/), which says the owner (1) doesn't actually run a wiki but rather maintains tight control of content and (2) wants to have positive posts and removes anything that generates controversy. So... for what it's worth.

I really don't care what others think of the series. To me, it's interesting to see how people form their opinions, what assumptions they base them on and how strongly they maintain them. It's interesting until they get in my face and tell me I'm wrong in a hostile or dismissive manner.

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

it's interesting to see how people form their opinions, what assumptions they base them on and how strongly they maintain them. It's interesting until they get in my face and tell me I'm wrong in a hostile or dismissive manner.

I would think that the psychological aspects here would be absolutely fascinating. Somebody really ought to do a study on it.