Friday, June 1, 2012
Harry Potter's girl trouble
The positive qualities that Schoefer identifies in The Harry Potter books are how brave Harry and Ron are, although she states that Harry is the braver of the two. How Hermione is book smart, and how Minerva is stricked but in a good way. I agree that Hermione was pretty stuck-up in the beginning but near the end, she ended up becoming pretty cool and she stuck by Harry and Ron's side till the end, whereas in the beginning, I wouldn't have thought that she would be there by there side. I think she is unfairly slanting her evidence since they whole point of the story was to explain how the women in the books basically get in the way and don't help much. Hermione was a "goody goody" in the first few books but as she got older she began to calm down and actually help Harry and Ron without aggravating them. If it wasn't for her, they wouldn't be able to do half the things that they did towards the ending books.
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Great observation Teonne! I thought that your evaluation of Schoefer’s essay, “Harry Potter’s Girl Trouble”, was very interesting. The way you picked up on the fallacies within Schoefer’s essay, “I have to hand it to you”, was right on the money. I too feel that there was more to Hermonie’s character than just a cute side kick. Besides, the author of the Harry Potter books, being also a female, would hardly consider the female roles of her books as being arm dressing for her male characters, but rather mutual counter parts in which they each share in the solving and vanquishing within each page. It’s not behind every great man stands a great woman, it is beside every great man stands a great woman.
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