11:25am April 11, 2014

➸ Seven Things the Movies Forgot About Hermione

yesthattoo:

allies-person:

lurknomoar:

In the original books, Hermione was a clever, kick-ass character made highly relatable by her imperfections. The movies erased most of her flaws, making her a better ‘role model for girls’, but a far less interesting person: a typical weakly written strong woman. So here are a few things we should…

YES, thank you.

I mean I actually do headcanon her as autistic because also that kind of terror

makes so much more sense if you’d been getting the message of not good enough, never good enough, can’t belong for your whole life. [Why would she already be terrified of not being good enough before the discrimination starts unless she’d already experienced it for something else?]

That’s a really good point, and I can definitely see it.

As a Hermione-esque person, I really internalized the idea that my ability to perform well academically was the most valuable thing about me. From a very early age, I knew that I wasn’t particularly pretty (in fact, I didn’t fit the thin ideal at all), charming, popular, or athletically or artistically talented. But I always got a lot of high praise from teachers about my writing abilities. My parents liked that, and when I received high standardized test scores, even when it was just third grade and didn’t actually matter all that much. So you end up internalizing the idea that without academics, you’re nothing.

Of course in my case that didn’t stop me from going through several years in which I didn’t do much homework and earned the “smart slacker” label, but people do react to these things differently.