Shog just announced that the next Dark Lord in the Harry Potter universe (you know, the actual universe that writes itself having been brought into existence by Rowling and stretched and twisted and changed by its fanfiction creators), will be a Dark Lady. He thinks that she will be Hermione, and these are his reasons:
- She is ambitious and goal-
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Being involved in various independent commitees, projects and causes, using her War Hero status to gain influence and put on pressure without the trial of working her way through the Ministry or getting elected is more the way I see her going, like Lucius Malfoy and Dumbledore in part. Then she could advance, either through the use of a puppet front man or stepping in as some kind of saviour (through a set up crisis?) to become a kind of benevolent tyrant. It would be her quashing of various liberties For the Greater Good that could gain her the Dark Lady moniker.
Either that, or she gets so incenced at some kind of casual rejection or injustice she goes out cold-bloodedly to set the world to rights, her way!
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Your ideas sound completely plausible to me, though I'd like to think that an adult Hermione would be able to check herself were she faced with your second instance (mostly because I think that she's more of a planner at heart :P). Your first instance reads like a story outline. :D
P.S. Of course, Hermione can be pretty ruthless when thinking on her feet, can't she be? I'm thinking specifically about her hexing Harry so that the Snatchers don't recognize him, and how she leads Dolores to the centaurs . . . .
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It is the second scenario that matches up with many of Shog's points - Hermione champions a cause, throws her all into it, then get snubbed for some spurious (Pureblood? Patriachal is more likely) reason. She storms off, activates some kind immediate vengence (or vice versa) then gets out her planners, highlighters and post it notes and sets about a cold and complete take down/take over of the person/people/organisation involved.
Actually that would also fit in with the first idea, if I were to write such a thing, which I'm not (please, I'm busy hacking at a smut_fest piece here, to see where I need to join things together - eek!)
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http://bloodcult.livejournal.com/186111.html
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It does have the potential to be a good story, though.
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I will share your comment with Shog; perhaps it will help me persuade him to back off on his request that I write him Dark!Hermione fic. :P
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Really, I could see the most plausible Dark Lady Hermione as caught up in her own ideas, like SPEW on a whole new level. She thinks she's doing the right thing, bending the rules for all the right reasons. Villains don't see themselves as the villain, after all.
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I completely agree.
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