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!

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The plausible Hermione/Snape fanfiction

[urbanman1984.livejournal.com]

Popular perceptions in the English speaking countries of victims of whatever age or gender who are injured by female malefactors manages the difficult feat of being even worse than popular perceptions relating to victims of male on male abuse. The "blame the victim" mentality is always very strong in such cases. I wonder if the vast majority of ignorant people consider that something being more degrading means the victim should be villified. The callousness of ordinary people never ceases to shock me. Certainly Snape's fate in this fic is more ignominious than being Dumbledore or Voldemort's slave would have been, although it was certainly less arduous than being Voldemort's slave would have been. The reviewer and author may have been being flippant about Snape because of the added dimension of degradation included in being Hermione's victim instead of Voldemort's or Dumbledore's.