Hemione's Talent Intro and Chapters 1-2

[szaleniec1000]

We have pottersues to thank for this one.

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[gargargarrick]

Hem-ione sounds like Hermione's sewing-themed supervillain twin, which would actually be kind of awesome.

I've never really understood the deep and personal hatred for Ron that these people seem to have - even if one really and truly believes Hermione belongs with someone else, why not just have it eventually not work out? As often happens in reality with relationships between high-school-aged kids? It's not like romance only fails when one party is actively malevolent. :/

In this particular instance, what confuses me is that we're to believe Malfoy "did feel sorry for everything he did during the war" (i.e., a number of actual serious crimes) without him doing so much as saying this, much less acting like it or being punished in any way - whereas Ron's betrayal (which was, to be fair, a dick move, but also not really on the level of attempted murder) apparently is completely unforgivable by anybody ever, even if he clearly feels rotten about it and wants to make amends. Talk about protagonist-centered morality

[sickbritkid2]

Also, this is probably the wrong thing to nitpick out of, you know, all of this, but even if they weren't massive anachronisms, the musical choices here don't exactly scream "Hermione". Does she really seem like the type to enjoy country music?

Definitely not. I've always pictured Hermione as one who enjoys a lot of the classics(Dvorak, Hadyn) but would definitely dip into good ol' rock 'n roll. She was, after all, a British teenage witch being raised by Muggle parents in the 1990s.

[beacon80]

Also, this is probably the wrong thing to nitpick out of, you know, all of this, but even if they weren't massive anachronisms, the musical choices here don't exactly scream "Hermione". Does she really seem like the type to enjoy country music?
Actually, this is a good thing to nitpick. The actual year Harry Potter is set in isn't terribly important. Even Rowling got the timeline a little wrong (Dudley has a Playstation a year before they came out). I could easily forgive a good fic that accidentally used music that hadn't come out in 1997, so long as the music actually fit the characters.

The song selection here is clearly the author's own playlist, and makes it painfully obvious that she's just projecting herself on to Hermione. Case in point, Brick by Boring Brick is about escaping the pressures of reality by hiding in fairy tales. Hermione's already living in the fairy tale half of that equation, and more importantly, she doesn't hide from her problems.

[szaleniec1000]

The author projecting herself onto fake!Hermione becomes a hell of a lot more disturbing later on. And yes, I probably wouldn't have bothered with anachronism points if there'd been one or two songs that came out in 1998-99.

[duster]

"She will not be singing [hip hop] songs?" Damnit that's the only thing that could be done to make this fic worthwhile.

[szaleniec1000]

There is hip-hop later, and I don't want to spoil it, but believe me that there are lulz aplenty.

[sickbritkid2]

It would have been worthier of a LOL if she'd told us to listen to something completely different and imagine that Hermione is singing the featured song to that tune instead, like on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

I just got the funniest image in my head of Hermione singing Misery Business to the tune of Champagne Supernova.

[sickbritkid2]

Harry and Ron are lost in the song knowing that this song means so much to me cause it says so much about me, and what I've gone through since I've started Hogwarts.

Since when has Hermione thought in ridiculously run-on sentences and used "'cause" to substitute for "because"?

[sickbritkid2]

I don't think the author could have got Hermione's voice any more wrong if she'd actively tried.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure Hermione doesn't think in stream of conscience...

Still more IC than Neil's Hermione, though.