Question: how emotionally plausible do people find Harry’s reaction to Hermione’s death?
In the Sorting Hat chapter, Eliezer gave us a very strong hint that Harry would very nearly turn dark at some point in this fic, and by the end of chapter 87 it seemed all but certain.
All the stuff pointing in the Harry-going-dark direction up til this point has felt very emotionally plausible. But… “He would rip apart the foundations of reality itself to get Hermione Granger back”? I’m having a hard time buying it.
And it invites some unflattering comparisons with other works of fiction. I hated the Star Wars prequels about as much as most people, and that was the first place my mind went, that suddenly we’re dealing with Anakin!Harry. Or, I didn’t hate Buffy season 6 as much as most people, but Willow not just wanting to kill the Trio, but destroy the world was pretty WTF and this feels similar.
It’s not reacting strongly to one person’s death, or wanting revenge, it’s the idea of going full supervillain over one person. That does not feel at all emotionally plausible to me. And technically Harry hasn’t actually done that yet, but he seems very close.
However, though I say this like it’s a criticism, I realize my not empathizing here may be a reflection of my having an unusual personality. So let me hereby give people an opportunity to tell me, “You have an unusually personality for being unable to see that lots of people would totally go full supervillain over the death of one person.”
I didn’t see Harry going supervillain there. His thoughts seemed consistent with his overall goals so far: “become omnipotent and rewrite reality because I have some objections to the way it works now”. It was just more dramatically stated this time. Because Harry was, you know, upset.
I think this is fully in keeping with his previous plan to tear down Azkaban, possibly at the cost of his own life, to save Hermione. It’s just that right now he doesn’t yet know what he needs to do to save her. In the previous arc he could be more specific.
Also note that Harry does not see “rip apart the foundations of reality itself” as necessarily a bad thing. He’s been planning to do that since the very early chapters anyway. Now he just needs to move his schedule forward a bit.
I don’t think he’s neccesarily going full supervillian. It’s not like Doctor Horrible, probably. More likely, he’s going to demand additional resources and start looking for a way to seriously go munchkin with magic physics.
Harry’s smart enough to realize that he’ll need to leave a good bit of reality in place for Hermione and himself to continue to exist and have the sort of lives they want.
I don’t think he’s on the path to supervillainy if he can hold on to his sense of context.
Very. My immediate reaction to “Time Pressure” was “damn that’s well-written,” both because of portrayal of Harry’s emotional state resonated with my own (lesser) experiences and because I caught myself humming dramatic music at the appropriate times.
EDIT: um, I didn’t really see it as “going full supervillain”, though… more like going full ohsitgottafixthis.
Question: how emotionally plausible do people find Harry’s reaction to Hermione’s death?
In the Sorting Hat chapter, Eliezer gave us a very strong hint that Harry would very nearly turn dark at some point in this fic, and by the end of chapter 87 it seemed all but certain.
All the stuff pointing in the Harry-going-dark direction up til this point has felt very emotionally plausible. But… “He would rip apart the foundations of reality itself to get Hermione Granger back”? I’m having a hard time buying it.
And it invites some unflattering comparisons with other works of fiction. I hated the Star Wars prequels about as much as most people, and that was the first place my mind went, that suddenly we’re dealing with Anakin!Harry. Or, I didn’t hate Buffy season 6 as much as most people, but Willow not just wanting to kill the Trio, but destroy the world was pretty WTF and this feels similar.
It’s not reacting strongly to one person’s death, or wanting revenge, it’s the idea of going full supervillain over one person. That does not feel at all emotionally plausible to me. And technically Harry hasn’t actually done that yet, but he seems very close.
However, though I say this like it’s a criticism, I realize my not empathizing here may be a reflection of my having an unusual personality. So let me hereby give people an opportunity to tell me, “You have an unusually personality for being unable to see that lots of people would totally go full supervillain over the death of one person.”
I didn’t see Harry going supervillain there. His thoughts seemed consistent with his overall goals so far: “become omnipotent and rewrite reality because I have some objections to the way it works now”. It was just more dramatically stated this time. Because Harry was, you know, upset.
I think this is fully in keeping with his previous plan to tear down Azkaban, possibly at the cost of his own life, to save Hermione. It’s just that right now he doesn’t yet know what he needs to do to save her. In the previous arc he could be more specific.
Also note that Harry does not see “rip apart the foundations of reality itself” as necessarily a bad thing. He’s been planning to do that since the very early chapters anyway. Now he just needs to move his schedule forward a bit.
I don’t think he’s neccesarily going full supervillian. It’s not like Doctor Horrible, probably. More likely, he’s going to demand additional resources and start looking for a way to seriously go munchkin with magic physics.
Plausible. If I thought I could rip apart the foundations of reality to get someone I care about back, I would probably at least try.
Harry’s smart enough to realize that he’ll need to leave a good bit of reality in place for Hermione and himself to continue to exist and have the sort of lives they want.
I don’t think he’s on the path to supervillainy if he can hold on to his sense of context.
Very. My immediate reaction to “Time Pressure” was “damn that’s well-written,” both because of portrayal of Harry’s emotional state resonated with my own (lesser) experiences and because I caught myself humming dramatic music at the appropriate times.
EDIT: um, I didn’t really see it as “going full supervillain”, though… more like going full ohsitgottafixthis.