PoA Thought
Sep. 3rd, 2015 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightofdayeSo I've been listening to audio book of Prisoner of Azkaban fo the upteemth time and this quote leapt out at me: "you're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met." - Remus Lupin
It seems to me that that quote gets shrunk down to 'the cleverest witch of the age' a lot. Or at least it seems like a lot in fanfic and I can't remember if gets referred to very often again in canon.
But... that ommission completely changes the meaning to me. With it it means something like 'wow, you're really smart for 14.' without I always read it as 'you're literally the cleverest witch of your generation'
And its not just Hermione, lots of fanfics will refer to Harry by some variant of boy-who-lived, modified to account for his later victories, far more than canon does, or at least so it seems to me.
Not sure what i'm concluding here beyond 'fandom loves nicknames' and 'poor ron: why doesn't he get a moniker?' but I thought you might appreciate my ramblings nevertheless.
It seems to me that that quote gets shrunk down to 'the cleverest witch of the age' a lot. Or at least it seems like a lot in fanfic and I can't remember if gets referred to very often again in canon.
But... that ommission completely changes the meaning to me. With it it means something like 'wow, you're really smart for 14.' without I always read it as 'you're literally the cleverest witch of your generation'
And its not just Hermione, lots of fanfics will refer to Harry by some variant of boy-who-lived, modified to account for his later victories, far more than canon does, or at least so it seems to me.
Not sure what i'm concluding here beyond 'fandom loves nicknames' and 'poor ron: why doesn't he get a moniker?' but I thought you might appreciate my ramblings nevertheless.
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Date: 2015-09-03 06:55 pm (UTC)Slytherins using Weaslette for Ginny usually sounds very forced to me.
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Date: 2015-09-03 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 07:30 pm (UTC)Oh, also, people have Hermione say "Ronald" far too much. But I do hate Mione unless it's used like ONCE when IDK Ron's in the hospital doped up. LOL
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Date: 2015-09-03 07:40 pm (UTC)The other PoA thought I had was that 'wormtail' should have been a huge tip off in universe. Exactly like Lupin being a werewolf should not have been a surprise. lol.
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Date: 2015-09-03 08:04 pm (UTC)Re: Hermione's use of 'Ronald', I only see it as applicable if she's mad at him for some reason, not as everyday speech. It just sounds far too formal for best friends. When I read her using it, it always plays in my head in the tone of that moment in PoA when she says, 'Ronald has lost his rat'. Can't unhear the tone.
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Date: 2015-09-03 07:31 pm (UTC)This is why I write next gen girls. LOL.
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Date: 2015-09-03 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 07:54 pm (UTC)LMAO I also found this forum discussion from 2005!
The nickname 'Mione for Hermione. It's incredibly widespread, yet no one's ever called her that in canon.
That's even before HBP I think so it would have to be in the last two books if it does exist.
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Date: 2015-09-03 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 07:58 pm (UTC)You mentioned Ron being doped up, and maybe that's what I was thinking? When he gets hit by the love potion/poison and calls out for her in the hospital?
'Mione doesn't seem like an unusual shortening of Hermione to me, and Ron's quite lazy that way, but all things in moderation, no?
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Date: 2015-09-03 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 09:02 pm (UTC)I like when the teenage girls seduce older men. It feels skeevy when it's the other way round.