Oh, TV Tropes...!

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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

[oryx_leucoryx]

Sorry, I'm just going on what I'm shown. I am shown Hermione doing terrible stuff. Even when she could have easily been written as a better person. She could have reversed Marietta's curse later in the year, she could have expressed horror at how Umbridge ended up - neither of these changes would have mattered to the plot, only to her characterization.

And wrt the DEs, I'm going on what I'm shown too. Some are ruthless killers and torturers, some clearly don't have it in them. For Severus there is of course more evidence in favor.

Rowling had hundreds of pages, I don't see why she should get away with 'Death Eaters - evil!!! doom!!! an 11 year war!!!!' without actually writing it.