TV Tropes fanbrats on Bellatrix: A Parody of a Rant

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Even Obi-Wan thinks Rowling's Doing It Wrong.

[ladyhadhafang]

Yeah. Rowling, seriously -- if you didn't want the Umbridge comparisons, why'd you just change her middle name at the *last minute*?! If you wanted, by any weird chance of pigs sprouting wings, to explore the Hermione/Umbridge comparisons, at least do it properly. Go into Umbridge's backstory and why she behaves the way she does (but don't go on full on apologist for it, but don't be too unsympathetic either. Be balanced, at least), go into Hermione's backstory and character a little more, and show how they took different routes: Hermione fighting for the side of Good (in the loosest sense of the term, but that's not the point), and Umbridge, while not a Death Eater herself, ultimately choosing to assist Voldemort in his reign of terror. * And if not...well, that sucks, but your choice. Just don't retcon her middle name to "Jean" -- at least make it "Jean" from the beginning. In fact...why would Rowling be so disturbed that Umbridge and Hermione share a middle name? (I...okay, there's the mirrors part, but still...)

(Ditto for Bellatrix. Although carving "Mudblood" on Hermione's arm was only in the movies)

* And another thing: doesn't that bit in DEATHLY HALLOWS defeat the purpose of "The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters", or am I overanalyzing?

Re: Even Obi-Wan thinks Rowling's Doing It Wrong.

[sunnyskywalker]

This is were coming down on the side of "Dumbledore isn't such a good person actually and he's an enemy of the DEs" would really have helped that message she set up. Instead we get Scrimgeour being moderately questionable and then dying while protecting people/information from the DEs, which isn't much.