[ 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

[diet_poison]

I don't think Hermione was unkind.

A lot of these comments make me think of the Fred and George wank. Yeah they did things that would be horrible IRL. But the books were not supposed to be gritty, and that stuff was supposed to be slapstick humor. I enjoyed it for what it was. I honestly have to wonder how anybody who got really hung up on the pranks or some of the stuff Hermione did that was mentioned here managed to enjoy the books at all.

I'm not saying Hermione was perfect or didn't have flaws - characters are more fun when they are nuanced, anyway - but this particular criticism sort of misses the point of the books to me, and takes aspects of it seriously that were not written to be that way.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a great point! The genre is really important.

[(Anonymous)]

The genre isn't skillfully conveyed in HP though, IMO. The tone is very inconsistent, it's kids book narration and slapstick one minute and War Is Hell and heavy-handed moral judgements the next, in a way that doesn't come off as a wise children's book to be enjoyed by all ages. It's almost like the worst of both worlds when it comes to children's vs. adult writing. You have clunky prose that's maybe forgiveable in children's literature and attempts at complex characters, themes and relationships that are mostly just handwaved away.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like... I kinda agree with the anon below about the books being inconsistent in tone, but I agree that you need to consider the genre and context.