[ SECRET POST #3863 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3863 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Alex James from Blur]


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[Night Court]


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[Top: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Chris Pratt
Bottom: Dave Bautista, Josh Brolin]


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[Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer]


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[Anna Faris and Chris Pratt in Mom, S04E11 "Good Karma and the Big Weird"]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i feel like a lot of that boils down to rowling writing in a very classic children's book style. you have that with a lot of her characters – fred and george testing their instant-illness candy on literal children (and a lot of other shit they pull, lbr), i think it was ginny and a couple of others at the end of some book hexing malfoy & co until they resemble big slugs (? i don't remember the exact quote, but that's the basic gist), all the hermione things cited above, the list goes on. and it's that very common theme you have in kids' books – physical punishment for bad deeds, because it's a little funny, it's a little satisfying, and it's usually so over the top that it's comedic rather than truly shocking. but then, she goes on to contrast the over the top comedy-punishment – like gilderoy lockhart forever losing his memory – with very real, very realisticially written human hurt – like neville's parents being tortured to the point of insanity in a society that obviously can't seem to cure psychological ills. and that's kinda why the whole thing feels disjointed: as a reader, you either have to switch between the humour and the seriousness by yourself, or you're gonna feel like what you're reading is morally pretty messy.

BUT back to the point.

and as others have pointed out, the whole worship-culture fandom has adopted isn't really helping, because how dare anyone imply hermione isn't perfect and flawless, because as we all know, the true sign of feminism is that... women aren't allowed to be real human beings who have flaws and/or make mistakes. (funniest thing: the extreme ron hate you can so frequently see is the other side of the coin: how dare ron feel overshadowed or experience any kind of jealousy at all? it's like he's a person, get the pitchforks!)

personally, i don't think hermione is downright unkind, that would just ignore too many aspects of her character and too many things she does and contributes. hell, she even says herself that kindness and friendship matter a big fat lot (probably also not the actual quote). i do think she's logical to a fault, and that logic occasionally bulldozes kindness – her parents are a good example, because lbr, erasing their memories and relocating them as far away as possible is the only way they could possibly stay safe, but that doesn't mean it isn't a pretty cold thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good comment.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a very, very good comment!

[(Anonymous)]

because how dare anyone imply hermione isn't perfect and flawless, because as we all know, the true sign of feminism is that... women aren't allowed to be real human beings who have flaws and/or make mistakes.

This reminds me of when I was still a H/Hr shipper, and people seriously argued Hermione was totally a "heroine", thus Harry's equal, thus it'd more feminist if she ended up with the hero instead of "the sidekick" (Ron).

I'm sure you can see the irony in that.