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Feb. 20th, 2019 07:57 pm Why on Earth do so many fanwriters hate Hermione? Like, Dumbledore I get, I don't agree with it and I don't think it's in character, but like Dumbledore Has Been Terrible All Along at least makes sense from a narrative tension/audience impact standpoint. Same with any of the other adults that disappoint you over the course of the series. Definitely there's reasons to dislike Ron in there, really most characters that appear have iffy attributes that could really bother someone. But Hermione? She literally does not one negative or harmful thing to anyone for the entire series, with the exception of going overkill on the curse-revenge things with Dumbledore's Army, and that's never the trait people play up.
Actually, it would be pretty interesting to see a fanfic where Hermione is hotheaded and sadistic (or megalomaniacal and coldly calculating, if that's how you read it), and that's why whichever perspective character has a problem with her. But it's never that. It's always something about how she's so whiny/nagging, how she can't stand that other people are smarter than her, that she's 'intelligent but not imaginative'/only booksmart, how she thinks she knows better than other people (in stories that try to argue for Divine Right of Kings, no less), how she's just unwilling to learn anything that goes against her worldview. Which, like, sorry, but I'm not really interested in entertaining your argument for 'but slavery is a good thing sometimes' either, and I'm pretty sure that's the only decent worldview to have here.
Anyway, the point being that most of the reasons that people do dislike Hermione are pretty gendered and socially coded as bad only when girls/women do them, so like. If you dislike Hermione, please check your sexism, basically.
Actually, it would be pretty interesting to see a fanfic where Hermione is hotheaded and sadistic (or megalomaniacal and coldly calculating, if that's how you read it), and that's why whichever perspective character has a problem with her. But it's never that. It's always something about how she's so whiny/nagging, how she can't stand that other people are smarter than her, that she's 'intelligent but not imaginative'/only booksmart, how she thinks she knows better than other people (in stories that try to argue for Divine Right of Kings, no less), how she's just unwilling to learn anything that goes against her worldview. Which, like, sorry, but I'm not really interested in entertaining your argument for 'but slavery is a good thing sometimes' either, and I'm pretty sure that's the only decent worldview to have here.
Anyway, the point being that most of the reasons that people do dislike Hermione are pretty gendered and socially coded as bad only when girls/women do them, so like. If you dislike Hermione, please check your sexism, basically.
