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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[sunnyskywalker]

I wonder if escaping before Voldemort walks in the door counts? Like, you're fighting some DEs, Bellatrix mouths off about how they'll be sorry when the Dark Lord gets there, and they manage to Apparate away five seconds before Voldemort arrives so he can gnash his teeth and say, "Curses, foiled again! Those damn meddling kids!" Then you do have the scariness aspect of Voldemort personally trying to kill them, without the problem of him failing six times to kill two couples (which rather undermines Harry's accomplishment of escaping Voldemort-in-person several times besides making him less scary in general).

That might work - Dumbledore could tell his recruits that he suspected Voldemort might have a weapon or weapons which it would be very helpful to deprive him of, without going into too much detail, and so if by chance they ever got ahold of any of his personal effects, they should summon Dumbledore right away so he could handle the no doubt horrible curses Voldemort probably placed on some innocuous-looking object. Or something.