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5061: Disenchanted - Hermione Granger

Dec 01, 2020 16:33

I figured getting back into the routine of things on the first of the month would be the best, but for some reason I got the good idea to look at Harry Potter stories on the pit which somehow involved COVID and I managed to come across today’s doozy.

Title: Disenchanted
Perpetrator: Miss Corbyn
Sue-O-Meter: Toxic
Cover/Banner Art: Their avatar is ( Read more... )

rating - toxic, pw - subject matter not kawaii, p - plot prop, sue - hermione granger

Comments 8

jaydestarlight December 2 2020, 05:41:52 UTC

I wouldn't mind reading a story that tackles suicidal ideation in a healthy, respectful, and tactful manner. The fact that suicide is used as a prop to start the plot is...really icky to me.

darth_gojira December 6 2020, 18:33:29 UTC

"About a year after the event of the Cursed Child,"

(Enterprise Red Alert SFX)

It's ironic: in order to fight Cursed Child, this fic adopts the same toxic trope from the play: If you don't marry my OTP, you will forever be doomed and miserable.
I want to lock the author and JKR in the same room and let them fight it out.

yemi_hikari December 14 2020, 00:33:31 UTC

I actually interpreted Cursed Child a bit differently in that Rowling was saying the only way the two could remotely not be doomed and miserable with each other is with the help of Harry, but that neither truly met the one or that the one they were meant to be with the ended up not being with for a multitude of reasons.

Of course, by this I don't mean Hermione not getting together with Harry because he got with Ginny. Harry and Ginny works, but it still floors me that when Rowling actually came out and admitted that Ron and Hermione doesn't really work that Harry/Hermione fans jumped on that as proof Harry and Ginny also didn't work which is a major leap in logic.

Then again, should we be surprised that we are discussing this in regards to a Harry/Hermione story?

darth_gojira December 14 2020, 15:36:24 UTC

Honestly I usually agree with Harry/Hermione shippers on other ships, but when it comes to their own ship I wish so many wouldn't be so desperate and insistent (to be fair, a lot of Romione shippers are just as bad with their "YOU JUST CAN'T READ BOOKS" position)

yemi_hikari December 15 2020, 06:38:06 UTC

The funny thing about the Romione shippers insisting that people read the play as proof that their ship works is the fact when I read the play I saw it as proof the ship doesn't work. I prefer the pairing in the live action movies, but that's because of the actor and actress not to mention - well, there's a reason why I wrote a couple of one-shots about the characters from one media being exposed to another media and noting they're not the same. None of that copying lines from the books or movies either that people have gotten into ( ... )

Thread 6

yemi_hikari December 14 2020, 00:28:20 UTC

WTF!

Like majorly WTF!

There's a reason why the Harry/Hermione fans have a reputation of being the delusional ones in fandom, but this type of Harry/Hermione fan really doesn't do the non-delusional ones any favors.

Mind you, I wouldn't call Cursed Child a happy ending for Ron and Hermione, but it was definitely a happy ending for Harry and Ginny yet we're supposed to believe that Hermione's failed her best friend and so called soul mate simply because shes not given him exclusive right to her body. That's what this is really about if one thinks about it, giving Harry the right to deflower her instead of someone else, but not allowing her to be with anyone else. Even the language used is majorly sexist and misogynistic in nature, but the writer's pretty much declared committing suicide is a better solution than *gasp* getting a divorce ( ... )