- Inspired by the Great Granger's birthday, Ril presents this
loving tribute.
There are a lot of theories floating around the internet on the
behavior of the characters and the “rightness” of how things
ended. However, we (Cas and I) can’t seem to justify certain red
flags.
For instance, the crazy/out-of-character behaivor of our little
cast in the book from hell. For those who cannot see that the
characters were a tad bit wonky I can offer no help, but for
those who did see and were...let’s say confused (to put it
nicely) by said wonkiness, I offer you this...
| Part One |
Hermione is acting crazy because her whole world got turned
upside down, she feels out of control. She is worried sick over
target.
She’s feeling the pressure from the reality of war life sinking
in; other people’s families are getting attacked, some parents
want to pull their kids out of school, some already have. The
evil HBP book is corrupting Harry (and she’s the only one to see
it while no one heeds her warnings), the random attacks on Katie
and Ron, ultimately leading to Dumbledore...
Ron and Harry both acting superficially, she expects/wants them
to be better, but they’re acting like typical teenage boys even
in the face of imminent danger...no one’s even asked her if she’s
okay after the Department of Mysteries...and then the death of
Sirius and the revelation of the prophesy strike their sweeping
blows within two weeks of each other. This clash/fight with Ginny
whatever it may be...
And she starts to fray at the edges...the pressures here are
greater than they were in Third Year...or at least of a greater
magnitude. If she missed a step that year, she’d only fail a test
or her marks would slip. If she misses a step in Sixth or Seventh
Year, someone can die.
I think to oversimplify by saying she’s jealous of one or both
boys does her a disservice. Yes, that may be a factor, but I
think there’s more to it than that.
She’s a very complex person, intelligent, thoughtful, she feels
things deeply. She seems lost.
I think she also feels unneeded and unwanted, and unnoticed.
This is a girl who is completely insecure and feels the only
thing she has to offer anyone is her brain and when Harry doesn’t
need that in Potions anymore, where does that leave her?
She’s passed up by both boys several times based on looks,
something she is sensitive about, and the only time she got
attention for being the beauty I know her to be, she got smashed
down by one of her so-called best friends insinuating that she
was a traitor.
Though it is important to note that though she may not think of
herself as a beauty, both boys seem to be attracted to distinctly
pretty girls (Cho, Fleur, Lavender, Ginny) specifically Ron, who
if you agree with leaping Anvils, would immediately and directly
imply that our little bookworm is indeed quite the looker.
Harry himself says what for a teenage boy is a gigantic
compliment by arguing the point with her that he doesn’t think
she’s ugly. Not exactly shining praise, but again, for a teenage
boy that’s as good as saying the girl is beautiful.
Krum, an international sports star, finds her attractive even
though she is at least three years younger than him and she
catches the eye of that idiot Cormac McLaggen, which may or may
not be a compliment in itself, but I do think it’s to show the
idea that there are other boys at Hogwarts that do think she’s
attractive, but lack the spine to approach her for one of two
possible reasons:
upside down, she feels out of control. She is worried sick over
target.
She’s feeling the pressure from the reality of war life sinking
in; other people’s families are getting attacked, some parents
want to pull their kids out of school, some already have. The
evil HBP book is corrupting Harry (and she’s the only one to see
it while no one heeds her warnings), the random attacks on Katie
and Ron, ultimately leading to Dumbledore...
Ron and Harry both acting superficially, she expects/wants them
to be better, but they’re acting like typical teenage boys even
in the face of imminent danger...no one’s even asked her if she’s
okay after the Department of Mysteries...and then the death of
Sirius and the revelation of the prophesy strike their sweeping
blows within two weeks of each other. This clash/fight with Ginny
whatever it may be...
And she starts to fray at the edges...the pressures here are
greater than they were in Third Year...or at least of a greater
magnitude. If she missed a step that year, she’d only fail a test
or her marks would slip. If she misses a step in Sixth or Seventh
Year, someone can die.
I think to oversimplify by saying she’s jealous of one or both
boys does her a disservice. Yes, that may be a factor, but I
think there’s more to it than that.
She’s a very complex person, intelligent, thoughtful, she feels
things deeply. She seems lost.
I think she also feels unneeded and unwanted, and unnoticed.
This is a girl who is completely insecure and feels the only
thing she has to offer anyone is her brain and when Harry doesn’t
need that in Potions anymore, where does that leave her?
She’s passed up by both boys several times based on looks,
something she is sensitive about, and the only time she got
attention for being the beauty I know her to be, she got smashed
down by one of her so-called best friends insinuating that she
was a traitor.
Though it is important to note that though she may not think of
herself as a beauty, both boys seem to be attracted to distinctly
pretty girls (Cho, Fleur, Lavender, Ginny) specifically Ron, who
if you agree with leaping Anvils, would immediately and directly
imply that our little bookworm is indeed quite the looker.
Harry himself says what for a teenage boy is a gigantic
compliment by arguing the point with her that he doesn’t think
she’s ugly. Not exactly shining praise, but again, for a teenage
boy that’s as good as saying the girl is beautiful.
Krum, an international sports star, finds her attractive even
though she is at least three years younger than him and she
catches the eye of that idiot Cormac McLaggen, which may or may
not be a compliment in itself, but I do think it’s to show the
idea that there are other boys at Hogwarts that do think she’s
attractive, but lack the spine to approach her for one of two
possible reasons:
1) because she is a strong, intelligent,
independent young woman, which could intimidate
anyone and does in fact force most grown adults
to take her seriously and bow to her judgment,
or
2) her two best friends are boys: big, sporty,
protective types who have been known to get
into a few scrapes over lesser things then some
intruder manhandling their best friend.
independent young woman, which could intimidate
anyone and does in fact force most grown adults
to take her seriously and bow to her judgment,
or
2) her two best friends are boys: big, sporty,
protective types who have been known to get
into a few scrapes over lesser things then some
intruder manhandling their best friend.
In my opinion, it’s a little bit of both.
(Can’t take credit for the idea for Hermione being beautiful as
supported by the idea that both boys think she’s cute read it
online somewhere. But for the record I’ve completely worshipped
her since 1st year and I’ve thought she was beautiful the whole
way through, just waiting for these stupid blokes of hers to open
their eyes and say “gee, Hermione, you look nice today.”)
Hermione is the main girl. She is the standard to which all
others are held. She’s also the first and, for the most part,
only girl in Harry’s life. The first physical form of comfort,
his “model” girl in the sense that this is how he thinks girls
should act.
So why should someone who has proven themselves to be above and
beyond the normal standards...a fiercely independent, strong,
capable, intelligent young woman suddenly pull the brakes and
jump the track, derailing to become just another insecure,
weeping little girl so desperate for approval she throws herself
at the first thing that shows any type of interest, despite the
fact that the interest shown is damn near abusive?
Why does Rowling turn Hermione into the same stupid boy-like
character in the end? “Hi, Ron. We’re in the middle of a battle
but I think I’ll snog you now.”
I mean, how many pathetic teen movies have we all been forced to
sit through (maybe even enjoyed) with similar plots? The shy
girl/boy wants to win the heart of the popular boy/girl who
treats her/him horribly so she/he strikes up a deal with one of
the other cool kids and gets transformed only to find that now
she/he has the attention of aforementioned popular boy/girl,
she/he doesn’t really like him/her at all...she/he has fallen for
the cool kid who did the transforming!
But to expect me to believe that they all got married and had
kids barely five years from the end of the seventh book?!?!
Pleh!
(Can’t take credit for the idea for Hermione being beautiful as
supported by the idea that both boys think she’s cute read it
online somewhere. But for the record I’ve completely worshipped
her since 1st year and I’ve thought she was beautiful the whole
way through, just waiting for these stupid blokes of hers to open
their eyes and say “gee, Hermione, you look nice today.”)
Hermione is the main girl. She is the standard to which all
others are held. She’s also the first and, for the most part,
only girl in Harry’s life. The first physical form of comfort,
his “model” girl in the sense that this is how he thinks girls
should act.
So why should someone who has proven themselves to be above and
beyond the normal standards...a fiercely independent, strong,
capable, intelligent young woman suddenly pull the brakes and
jump the track, derailing to become just another insecure,
weeping little girl so desperate for approval she throws herself
at the first thing that shows any type of interest, despite the
fact that the interest shown is damn near abusive?
Why does Rowling turn Hermione into the same stupid boy-like
character in the end? “Hi, Ron. We’re in the middle of a battle
but I think I’ll snog you now.”
I mean, how many pathetic teen movies have we all been forced to
sit through (maybe even enjoyed) with similar plots? The shy
girl/boy wants to win the heart of the popular boy/girl who
treats her/him horribly so she/he strikes up a deal with one of
the other cool kids and gets transformed only to find that now
she/he has the attention of aforementioned popular boy/girl,
she/he doesn’t really like him/her at all...she/he has fallen for
the cool kid who did the transforming!
But to expect me to believe that they all got married and had
kids barely five years from the end of the seventh book?!?!
Pleh!
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