The books are not about rape.

[susanmcgee48176]

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> As a H/Hr shipper, I remember I used to get upset when some R/Hr 
> shippers theorized of Harry being the 'violent' type... their canon 
> evidence for this belief was the Fight and Flight chapter in OoTP, 
> in which Harry "felt" like wanting to "shake" Hermione.  So, even 
> though I don't believe that Harry is a violent person, or that he'd 
> resort to abuse his girlfriend, I can see where some people get 
> their ideas from.  As Del stated in another post, it's not the 
> readers whom are bringing violence/abuse/rape to the HP universe, 
> it's the author herself whom brought them in.


I don't think Harry "feeling" as if he wants to "shake" Hermione 
counts as violence or abuse. I was brought up in the Catholic Church 
where we were taught that intending to do something, or feeling it, 
was a sin. I no longer believe that. Only actions count.


> I give you example of this: Hermione's canary attack.  While it 
> looked like a funny scene at first -especially because it happened 
> to Ron-, when I read the book a second time this scene hit me like 
a 
> bullet!  On this second time, when I already I knew that Hr/R ship 
> was about to sail in next book, that canary scene striked me as too 
> violent for my taste.
> I wondered:  how can any couple come up to terms or feel good with 
> each other after one of them has so purposedly "hurt" the other?  I 
> don't know... but despite JKR's other nice messages about 
> friendship, love, etc., this scene alone kind of kills it for me. 
> What's a 12 year-old girl going to think after reading that scene?  
> That hurting a boy you like is okay if he's crossed you, because 
> he's going out with another girl and not you?
> I could have even accepted a "petrificus totalus" or a "silencio" 
> spell on Ron, but a canary attack?  We know that it was not a mild 
> thing, it left marks on Ron's face and hands -that had been 
covering 
> his eyes, mind you- for days afterwards...
> 
> So who is bringing violence or abuse to HP world?
> 


I don't like this scene either, but I don't think it's characterisic 
of Hermione. I disagree with JKR putting this scene in...

Do I think it makes Hermione an abuser? No. I think it's an isolated 
incident.

I think it might reflect JKR's belief that there can be isolated 
incidents of violence, for example, someone slapping someone else 
once...but I don't agree with her. 

Susan