Oh, TV Tropes...!
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deathtocapslockQuite 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!
"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!
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Date: 2011-10-08 03:46 am (UTC)That's not true. Somewhere here I wrote just a few hours ago as to how Harry's hatred for him was unbalanced/unfair, viz blaming Snape (totally) for the death of Sirius.
while you bend over backwards for Hermione.
Likewise, not true. I acknowledge Hermione's faults (one or two new ones I hadn't realised the last few days in the 'sociopath' thread!). But I acknowledge her redeeming traits too. Some here damn her with the negatives and filter out the positives entirely, it seems.
In the last three, she became a horror.
No; she did a couple of horrid things. Big difference. And she did lots of good/positive things too, you know.
... it was glaringly obvious that he killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders.
Yes, even I'd seen that after putting HBP down, I think.