People who have this [status regulating] emotion leave angry reviews on Chapter 6 of HPMOR where they complain about how much Harry is disrespecting Professor McGonagall and they can’t read this story.
I wasn’t very satisfied with Eliezer’s comment there. He seemed to be missing the point of those complaints. They didn’t mind necessarily that Harry acted as he did, but they found it out-of-character that McGonagall would respond to Harry’s actions as she did.
See also EYs comment on FB:
I wasn’t very satisfied with Eliezer’s comment there. He seemed to be missing the point of those complaints. They didn’t mind necessarily that Harry acted as he did, but they found it out-of-character that McGonagall would respond to Harry’s actions as she did.
Comes off as if its an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged or something, with the wonderful hero so obviously superior to everyone...
yeah that’s one of the worst parts of the story for me.
Thanks for the link. I think the idea of status slapdown is (part?) of what I was getting at in 1).