katia | Do you like Hermione?

Hmm, I am not sure why I haven't posted for a while. I have certainly been here, I guess I have nothing much to say, which is odd for me, and also not quite true.

So this will be long and rambly and behind cuts, but before that a quick rec.

Apocrypha by xylodemon is a wonderfully rich Severus/James. I hadn't realised how much that pairing appeals to me. This is seven parts and completed, the link goes to part one.

Today went rather quickly. Two of my lessons were cancelled (well one was and somebody told me the other was, even though it wasn't, and now I have to deal with catching up and an angry techer) and so I had time to finish the fic I am writing Yay me! Now all I have to do it is type it up. And I would have done that if I didn't keep getting interrupted which is starting to get annoying. I have been trying to write this post for a long time, but I watched the Rotter's club, which is a brilliant mini series set in the 70s in Birmingham. Today was the second out of three parts and it is so cool, with the hair and politics and trade unions and they did Othello in school and this boy went to London and ended up having a whole lot of sex with this much older woman and he was so cute and pleased. I am not sure why I am writing this, nevermind. I have started watching tv again. It is nice. My love for the OC and Smallville and SG1 is growing. There is so much I watch right now and it makes me happy and needing fic, and even though those fandoms are quite established, they just don't have enough fic. I really love the fact that in the HP fandom, there is so much incredible fic, yes there is a lot of crap too, but there is also a fic for any random pairing you are looking for and with any random kink and that is why it rocks so much. I want something different when it comes to OC fic, but I am not sure where to find it. Not that I have really searched very much but still. And this is all I will say for now, because I planned to say more but I kept doing other things and so I won't.

And now a very simple poll. Because I have seen a lot of animosity towards Hermione and I am not sure why people don't like her. But that is for another post. Now I just want to know if you do, to see whether she is well liked or not. And this refers to canon Hermione.

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Just to be very clear about my answer. Yes, I do like Hermione, and I do like her to the degree of 10. This does not mean that I am unaware of her faults, or the aspects of her personality that can be annoying or grating. It means that I accept those things as the inevitable flip-side of all the things I value in her. I think that she is an incredibly sincere person who always does what she thinks is right, no matter the consequences. I think she cares deeply for her friends, and constantly demonstrates this through her actions. I think she is genuinely kind, though often awkward. I admire her convictions and her perseverance, even while recognizing that she can be abrasive and overly-cerebral. Personally, I think she gets seriously shortchanged in fanon, but obviously many would disagree. ;)

I agree with you completely. I love Hermione as a character and as I person and I know that she can jump into things without thinking, can be cruel, can be overconfident in her abilities, but I believe that she has always had a reason to do so, and it is precisely her faults that make her so human.

What I really can't understand is why people dislike her, hate her even. The hatred for most other characters even if I don't agree with, I can understand. But the only reasons for the Hermione hatred that is so widespread that I can see are fanish, to do with her being a girl and thus often dismissed, and to do with her being in the way for people's favourite pairings. Reasons that for me are invalid. I am not saying that there aren't perfectly valid reasons to dislike her, I just want to know what these are. That is why this poll and another one I will probably have tomorrow.

Thank you for taking the time to explain your answer :)

Do you like Hermione?

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