witches of the world (was: Lavender vs Hermione)

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No: HPFGUIDX 160350

> >>Becca:
> That's interesting!  What causes you to out and out not like her?

Betsy Hp:
I really didn't like how Hermione treated Ron in HBP.  And I'm not a 
fan of her moral equivocating.  e.g. It's okay when Hermione cheats 
but she's death on others doing something similar.  I don't like how 
easily she disfigured another classmate and never blinked an eye 
that we see.

That particular side of Hermione (ruthless judge) has grown 
throughout the books, but by the time HBP comes around Hermione 
seems perfectly comfortable in her self-designated role.  Her smug 
certainty that she knows all has pushed me into active dislike at 
this point.  (Book 7 can still save the character for me.  If 
Hermione admits that she doesn't actually know everything that could 
make a difference for me.)

> >>Becca: 
> What sort of imagining is she down on?

Betsy Hp:
Hermione is a reader, which should be attractive to me, but she 
seems to be a pure non-fiction girl.  The way she's so quick to 
dimiss all of Luna's ideas suggests to me that she'd be the chick in 
the back of the theater saying "oh *this* could never happen".  The 
party pooper, IOWs, so confident of her own knowledge she refuses to 
contemplate, "what if?".

> >>Becca:
> What do you think of the  other witches in the books?

Betsy Hp:
I've actually been thinking about this for a while.  Because in 
general, I don't like JKR's girls (or women for that matter).  I'm 
not a fan of either Ginny or Molly.  Tonks strikes me as rather 
flat.  Though Fluer is cool, and I like McGonagall, even as she 
scares the crap out of me.

I do like the women I'm not sure I'm supposed to like (Narcissa, 
Pansy, Lavender and Parvati) but part of that could well be the 
blank slate effect. <g>

> >>Becca:
> <snip> 
> Lavender and Parvati, I would say, are the girls that I made nice 
> with in school, but would never have hung out with on the         
> weekends.  
> They both seem somewhat superficial to me... not a lot there to   
> hold my attention.  Lavender more so than Parvati, I guess,        
> although I think Parvati has a bit of a backstabbing streak in    
> her...

Betsy Hp:
Hee!  I *was* Lavender or Parvati in school.  (For this reason I 
don't see either of them quite as superficial as all that. <g>)  Had 
a best friend, would totally sigh over cute boys and hot teachers 
(though sadly lacking in the hot teachers, unfortunately -- in high 
school anyway).  I don't think Parvati is a backstabber.  I loved 
her egging on Lavender's crush on Ron.  Their world has become so 
ugly by that point, I think it was very sweet of Parvati to 
encourage Lavender to concentrate on other things.

> >>Becca: 
> And, though they've not gotten a lot of page/screen time, I reckon 
> the Quidditch girls (Angelina, Katie) are alright...
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I like them too. So I guess I don't dislike *all* of JKR's women. <g>

Betsy Hp (enjoyed the questions, Becca!)