Yet she repeatedly tramples on the free will of those she considers "lesser" than herself, such as her parents.
And how, exactly, does Hermione see her parents as "lesser" than herself?
If you're looking for perfect or entirely consistent characters, you'll find them in books, but not in good books. Good characters are contradictions, just like real humans.
It is only when Hermione starts doing things like cheating to get Ron an unearned position on a sports team by attacking another student, remember, that Rowling stated in an interview that it was good to have Hermione "loosen up."
See above comment. To read some fatal character flaw into Hermione because she does stuff that other teens do is, I think, an unfortunate reading.
Do you have any textual authority for that statement?
Her character from Goblet on. It did appear she dropped her social justice concerns in Goblet, but the intelligence of her conversation with Griphook says the opposite to me.
I think there's little in the text to support any reading of the wizarding world's future because she doesn't write anything about it; we have to make deductions based on what we know, and I think given what we have, we can assume there will be future advocacy on the part of the trio for equal rights for all magical brethren.
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Date: 2008-07-01 07:59 pm (UTC)And how, exactly, does Hermione see her parents as "lesser" than herself?
If you're looking for perfect or entirely consistent characters, you'll find them in books, but not in good books. Good characters are contradictions, just like real humans.
It is only when Hermione starts doing things like cheating to get Ron an unearned position on a sports team by attacking another student, remember, that Rowling stated in an interview that it was good to have Hermione "loosen up."
See above comment. To read some fatal character flaw into Hermione because she does stuff that other teens do is, I think, an unfortunate reading.
Do you have any textual authority for that statement?
Her character from Goblet on. It did appear she dropped her social justice concerns in Goblet, but the intelligence of her conversation with Griphook says the opposite to me.
I think there's little in the text to support any reading of the wizarding world's future because she doesn't write anything about it; we have to make deductions based on what we know, and I think given what we have, we can assume there will be future advocacy on the part of the trio for equal rights for all magical brethren.