Hermione's parents.

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 175225



Magpie:
You haven't actually argued against my own issue, which is that grown
adults are not house cats where the only thing that matters is what's
convenient for their owner and what their owner decides will spare
them pain. If as a Muggle you will happily hand over your free will
to Wizards because they know best that's your choice. I would lean
more towards the Muggle Liberation Army, myself. Does this make
things more difficult for the good guys? Sure it does. Morals are a
lot easier if you're Hermione in canon, and generally the way to be a
good person is to line up with the right leaders, and a happy ending
is having the right people in charge of everyone. But it's still
important, imo. (Even if, as I said, I really just view this as a
throwaway way of getting rid of Hermione's parents so that we don't
have to hear about them again. She has essentially just put her pets
in a kennel for the rest of the book so we don't have to be told
who's feeding them and know they won't be involved from now on.)

Prep0strus:
I have, for the most part, stayed out of the Hermione discussion and
the Crucio discussion.  But I read this post, and something clicked
with me.  I really never bothered to acknowledge what Hermione was
doing.  I was like, oh, that's nice, convenient, and moved on.

But when you stop and think about it – yeah, there's something
seriously `effed' up about what she did.  And my problem isn't
necessarily that she did it – I don't think Hermione or any of the
good guys are perfect, and I can see this as something she does and we
can accept it
 but what I don't like is that there is no discussion in
the books of it. No acknowledgement that this might not be the right
path.  And that's the problem I have with the Unforgiveables.

Up until this book, I felt that they really were this horrible things
and good guys would lose a part of what makes them who they are if
they did them.  And then Harry did, and
 the response I felt the
reader was supposed to give was, `that's funny and clever' to the
Imperius and "heeeeelllls YEAH" to the crucio.  And, while I've read
the arguments of people saying that JKR doesn't need to lay out for
us, `this is wrong', and wants us to make up our own minds
 I think
that the hint of opposition should be there.  No one seems to question
Harry.  McGonnagal, a seeming no-nonsense, mostly by the books witch,
is flattered by it.  And it gave me a sense of discomfort that I felt
I should be rooting for this thing I thought was bad.  And I wanted
some character to express that discomfort for me.

And that's now how I feel about Hermione's actions.  Except I didn't
even catch it in the reading.  I just accepted it as ok.  Muggles
AREN'T house cats.  (Again, I comment as a vet – no insult meant to
cats! :) )Someone should have questioned Hermione's arrogant actions,
just so at least we know that the world doesn't really think this is
unquestionably ok.  Just like I want someone to question Harry's
unforgiveables so that I'm not thinking he's out there as an adult
Auror using them however he feels like it, as if they have no meaning.

~Adam (Prep0strus), mildly surprised to be submitting a post that
doesn't mention Snape or any of the Marauders