From 184b8de081bdf6dbad73e87c78934e44279397b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:08:10 +0200 Subject: Adding "One More Anti-Harmony" blog post. --- faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst | 14 +++--- 2 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst diff --git a/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst b/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cc3948 --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +One More Anti-Harmony +##################### + +:date: 2020-08-06T20:02:58 +:category: faith +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment + +(my comments on the thread “`why does almost everyone hate the +Harry/Hermione ship?`_” by patriot_man69420_) + +I don’t hate the ship, although I generally prefer Hinny, I could +admit that `Ginny is extremely poorly written by JKR`_, +and fanfiction has to add a lot of her personality to make her +livable (which fortunately Northumbrian and other great Hinny +writers did). I can even agree that when we limit ourselves just +to what’s in the books, Harmony is even more likely. I also fully +support the notion that foundation of every long-lasting romantic +relationship must be deep friendship (yes, my wife is also my +best friend, and I am very glad for it). It is one of the +greatest things I have against JKR that her romance is just about +physical relationship. What all pairs in HP universe do? They +snog, or perhaps when appropriate they ended up in the bed, not +much else. The only romantic scene in whole heptalogy is the +disastrous date between Harry and Cho at the Madam Pudifoot’s, +and that is not exactly the best example of romance. There is +even less collaboration between lovers on something else: +ignoring Trace (which is just a hapless plot-crutch created in +the last second) I don’t see any reason why Hermione and Ron +could be with Harry on the Horcrux action, and Ginny couldn’t. +Perhaps she couldn’t physically go with them (she was underage, +so she couldn’t leave Hogwarts without consent of her parents), +but she would be certainly in know and she could organize some +action at Hogwarts in coordination with the Trio. All those +lovely communication coins stopped work? Kreacher couldn’t +transport messages? Etc. No, the true problem is that in the JKR +mind romance is just about snogging (and that’s getting too close +to discuss her personal life, so I stop it right here). + +Having said that, my biggest problem with most Harmony stories is +that they are just poorly written. Ron/Weasley/Dumbledore bashing +is not just a cute feature of those stories, but a sign of +insufficient plot and missing story. Strenuous effort to persuade +us how Harry and Hermione fit together is just boring, because +the only thing we ever learn about the development of their +relationship is that there is none. They just so well work +together, and they so love each other, and there is no conflict +between them, and did I tell you how well they click together? +Their chemistry is just awesome … [reader snores]. The only +relational conflict in “`Notebooks and Letters by chem prof`_” +(which is IMHO one of the best Harmony stories, don’t let me be +misunderstood) is when almost(?) naked Cho literally jumps him, +and Harry doesn’t run away from her kiss fast enough. Harry is +then so much tormented by his guilt, that he almost breaks their +engagement (until fortunately Hermione’s parents explain him he +is stupid). Really, that’s it. And there is (comparing to most +other Harmony stories) at least that relational conflict. + +Let us compare it with some random Hinny stories. In `Hunters and +Prey by Northumbrian`_, Junior Auror Harry Potter arrests his +beloved completely drunk Ginny when she shouts at him how she +hates him while firing curses at him (it turns later she was +under the influence of some potion given to her by Death Eaters). +Harry is after couple of weeks he spent on the Auror mission in +complete isolation when he was struggling with doubts whether +their relationship will really grow as he would like, confronted +with this. In `Inner Demons by serendipity_50`_, Ginny struggles +with PTSD to the level she makes him leave England (and +subsequently attempts suicide, when she recognizes what she did). +Harry then spends two years on the overseas mission (while the +tabloid press lies about his sexual achievements with strange +beauties of the Eastern Europe). When Harry finally returns to +England, Ginny continues to struggle with her fear and flashbacks +whenever she considers how dangerous profession Harry has. In +`Meaning of One, Part One: Stone and Fire by Sovran`_ (it is +a soul-bond story) eleven years old Harry and ten years Ginny get +around their soul-bond conflicts with her parents (no, the story +is not paedophile, I don’t think get to the true sex at all … the +story has been abandoned after CoS) to the level they completely +explode faces of both Molly Weasley and the Headmaster +Dumbledore. + +Would you agree with me that these examples look more realistic +and more fun (as in interesting, not funny) than your average +Harmony story? Did I forget to tell you how perfectly Hermione +and Harry fit together? + +.. _`why does almost everyone hate the Harry/Hermione ship?`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/i4u5ce/why_does_almost_everyone_hate_the_harryhermione/g0kxwpa/?context=3 + +.. _patriot_man69420: + https://www.reddit.com/user/patriot_man69420/ + +.. _`Ginny is extremely poorly written by JKR`: + {filename}what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst + +.. _`Notebooks and Letters by chem prof`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3867175 + +.. _`Hunters and Prey by Northumbrian`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/1857084 + +.. _`Inner Demons by serendipity_50`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/601124 + +.. _`Meaning of One, Part One: Stone and Fire by Sovran`: + http://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid=11833 diff --git a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst b/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst index 044f279..0aca6c5 100644 --- a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst +++ b/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ What’s wrong with Ginny? (my comments on “`The Character Development of Ginny Weasley`_” by `u/goodlife23`_) -For me the main idea of everything written (originally I have -this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “`How Not to Write -a Play`_”) is that the plot (and character development and many -other things in any literary work) is about a character moving -from point A to point B. That’s all the play (novel, short story) -is about! Why did she move from A to B? What were the obstacles -on the way? How did she overcame them? Actually points A and +For me the main idea of everything written (originally, I have +this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “`How Not to Write +a Play`_”) is that the plot (and character development and many +other things in any literary work) is about a character moving +from point A to point B. That’s all the play (novel, short story) +is about! Why did she move from A to B? What were the obstacles +on the way? How did she overcame them? Actually points A and B are not so important as the travel between them. One of the most horrible sins of every literary work is when in -- cgit