Hi everyone,
A month ago I realised that I had never read Harry Potter before (+ also never intentionally watched the movies, I saw them playing in the background when other people maybe watched). I felt this was strange since Harry Potter is such a big thing in pop culture, so I picked up the HP books last month and I’m now currently on the fourth book.
It’s funny because I knew some things, like I knew of the existence of the Weasley’s but I never realised how many of them there actually were 😅 I never knew Percy and the other oldest two even existed.
Anyways, it’s been a really fun ride, my fave book up until now is the Prisoner of Azkaban one because what the author did with Sirius was genius. I went from being slightly scared of him to him being my favourite character (he went through so much in Azkaban yet he still has it in his heart to be there for Harry & SPOILER: he is innocent!)
The books are so fun and well written, I never expected children’s books to be this good. But one thing; I really don’t like Hermione… And I think I am supposed to like her The author is trying to make her likeable I think, but it’s just not working for me. In the book she does this thing where she “impatiently” tells the other characters things they don’t know but she does know cause she reads so much. She is not unkind or anything and her current passion for activism for house elves in the goblet of fire is really admirable. But she’s just not someone I would want to be friends with… Perhaps it’s to do with the fact that as a child I had a friend who was a bit of a know-it-all and it kinda triggers me.
Also, book three with her cat (I forgot his name) and Ron’s rat, it just annoyed me so much that she would not take her cat away from Ron’s rat and that she would not admit to any wrongdoing when her cat attack the rat. Now obviously we found out a lot of new information afterwards but still, she annoyed me a lot in those passages and I sided more with Ron in that book.
Of course, compared to Malfoy who is such a jerk (I’m currently at the part where Malfoy is insulting Ron’s mom, it made me wanna beat him) she is completely fine and normal. It’s just from what I understand most people who like Harry Potter also like Hermione, which I don’t get as much.
Does she change a lot as a person in the later books? It’s not like she is insufferable or anything but I’m just curious if it is just me or if the Harry Potter fans are a fan of her character in the later books.
Anyways sorry for the ramblings and PLEASE do not spoil me for the later books, I have been having such a good time
by dionysoursugar