Hermione Grainger and the Methods of Rationality - Input Junkie
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Hermione Grainger and the Methods of Rationality
I've been enjoying Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Petunia marries a professor, so Harry is raised in a good home and is very familiar with science and science fiction), but I have some problems with the way Hermione is in the story. In order to see whether I'm an outlier on this, here's a poll:
How plausible do you think the Methods of Rationality Hermione is?
Extremely plausible-- I'm very like her or I know someone very like her
1(4.3%)
Very plausible-- she makes a lot of sense to me
5(21.7%)
Plausible enough-- good in the story, and I've never thought about whether she's plausible
9(39.1%)
Incoherent-- plausible in some chapters but not in others
3(13.0%)
Incoherent-- doesn't seem like the same character through the story and generally implausible
2(8.7%)
Does not seem like a human being
0(0.0%)
Some other possibility (please describe in comments)
3(13.0%)
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| | ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/111910597/560866) | | From: |  agrumer |
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| Date: | August 28th, 2010 08:02 pm (UTC) |
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I find his version of Hermione both more plausible and more faithful to Rowling's original than his version of Harry. which is entirely reasonable, given that Harry is the most AU thing about the story.
Well, the whole point of the fic was "what if you changed harry but left everything else the way it was" so I don't know that "more faithful than Harry" is either a faint or great praise. | From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | August 28th, 2010 10:40 pm (UTC) |
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That's very much *not* the point of the fic. (The author even wrote about that.) Quirrell, for example, is completely different from and not as a consequence of Harry changing. I'd call her implausible and not a terribly good match to canon (too self-aware about some things, mostly) but reasonably consistent.
Also, you do not have an "I would like to complain about this poll" option.
Maybe a cabbage or something. Not that I'd call her *very* plausible, but she's more plausible than MoR!Harry. | |  Very plausible- I had a grade school crush on someone like that
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Met her years later- she's really like that. My biased opinion. Happily married, happy for her- bah. Fwiw, I was so disgusted with the treatment of both MacGonagal and Hermione that I stopped reading.
Neither of them should be shown as such wimps to stand for AU-Harry's abuse.
At one point the author said in a meta-comment that he realized he was dropping anvils on other characters, but this was a first draft. I hope later drafts improve what could be a very good book!
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