Yet Hermione and McGonnagal are essentially as flawed as they were in the original text.
Amelia Bones, Susan Bones, Daphne Greengrass, Padme Patil (and even more minor characters like Hannah Abbot and Tracey Davis) are all significantly stronger and more relevant characters in this one than they ever were in the Harry Potter series.
If you compare ratio of the genders of relevant characters, HPMOR is better than the original Harry Potter ever was. You say Hermione is as flawed as in the original but you forget that it was Ron who was completely downgraded to peripheral status.
And as Velorien said, fridging is defined by its narrative purpose, and we don’t know its narrative purpose yet.
On the other hand, major female characters Luna and Ginny are entirely absent from HPMOR. I guess it was inevitable given the decision to make the story take place only within Harry’s first year (since they are not in school yet) but I would have loved to see an HPMOR version of either of them.
No way—she would kill them at seeing her picture in the newspaper...if she knew it was them. They were keeping their name out of it at least partially to save their necks from their family.
Yeah I meant to mention Amelia Bones, who is by far the most competent female character we’ve encountered thus far. She is not, of course, a particularly major character thus far.
I guess when a character has an exciting fight off stage and we as readers perceive them as mortally wounded and helpless, and our male character swears vengeance at their death.. thats pretty much fridging to me. Regardless of the conclusion, the next few chapters at least will be devoted to Harry’s actions which are entirely predicated on hermione’s death.
If she had, as some suggested, died saving someone, as part of her arc, if we’d seen more of her fight, I do think that scene would have come across better. There may, of course, be excellent reasons that we did not get to observe that scene: perhaps we’ll find out. I’m talking about the response now, and immediate feelings associated with that.
Amelia Bones, Susan Bones, Daphne Greengrass, Padme Patil (and even more minor characters like Hannah Abbot and Tracey Davis) are all significantly stronger and more relevant characters in this one than they ever were in the Harry Potter series.
If you compare ratio of the genders of relevant characters, HPMOR is better than the original Harry Potter ever was. You say Hermione is as flawed as in the original but you forget that it was Ron who was completely downgraded to peripheral status.
And as Velorien said, fridging is defined by its narrative purpose, and we don’t know its narrative purpose yet.
On the other hand, major female characters Luna and Ginny are entirely absent from HPMOR. I guess it was inevitable given the decision to make the story take place only within Harry’s first year (since they are not in school yet) but I would have loved to see an HPMOR version of either of them.
They’re not old enough to be in Hogwarts yet.
Luna isn’t entirely absent, she’s been mentioned by name and her own musings have been published as fact in the Quibbler.
Ginny does seem to be entirely absent so far though.
Not so—she was involved in Fred and George’s plot in some way (otherwise she would kill them upon seeing her photo in the newspaper).
No way—she would kill them at seeing her picture in the newspaper...if she knew it was them. They were keeping their name out of it at least partially to save their necks from their family.
You’re right, I had forgotten the Marriage Law plot.
Yeah I meant to mention Amelia Bones, who is by far the most competent female character we’ve encountered thus far. She is not, of course, a particularly major character thus far.
I guess when a character has an exciting fight off stage and we as readers perceive them as mortally wounded and helpless, and our male character swears vengeance at their death.. thats pretty much fridging to me. Regardless of the conclusion, the next few chapters at least will be devoted to Harry’s actions which are entirely predicated on hermione’s death.
If she had, as some suggested, died saving someone, as part of her arc, if we’d seen more of her fight, I do think that scene would have come across better. There may, of course, be excellent reasons that we did not get to observe that scene: perhaps we’ll find out. I’m talking about the response now, and immediate feelings associated with that.