Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
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There's an article in the Chronicle about HP, and it contains this puzzling line:
Critics have interpreted the Potter series as political and biblical allegory, as Nietzschean philosophical tract and as an anti-feminist affront.
Anti-feminist? Really? That's new. Why, just because the main character is a boy?
And Hermione's a know-it-all, pretty much, is my understanding.
It's anti-feminist for a female character to be intelligent?
It's anti-feminist for a female character to be intelligent?
I think there were complaints that Hermione gets flustered under pressure and she's sidelined for much of Chamber of Secrets, and other stuff. It mostly came earlier in the series, and JKR added more strong female characters which has blunted that line of criticism.
But, she's a cliche, P-C. She has to be both intelligent and sweet and wonderful, but also "strong", lest she be a doormat.
That came across as bitchy. A comment here about how I am clearly a stereotype would be even more so.
I'm very tired of Hermione. I like Luna and Tonks.
SPEW gets bleeding old, but I'm kinda loving her being the exposition fairy for emotions during this re-read.
I wanted to thwap Hermione a lot for all the SPEW stuff, so I was glad it wasn't in the movie.
I thought SPEW was a very adolescent thing to do, to try to reform the world. Though I agree that someone other than Hermione could have done it.
I thought SPEW was a very adolescent thing to do, to try to reform the world. Though I agree that someone other than Hermione could have done it.
Even though it was annoying I also thought it was exactly something a young teen like Hermione would do.