Just to be clear, the name of the story in question is “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, which was based off of a series of seven books also titled with the name “Harry Potter”. The name of the story is not “Hermione Granger and the Methods of Rationality”. If it were, then yes, I would expect to see her impact be the larger one.
Just to be clear, the name of the story in question is “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, which was based off of a series of seven books also titled with the name “Harry Potter”. The name of the story is not “Hermione Granger and the Methods of Rationality”. If it were, then yes, I would expect to see her impact be the larger one.
In the original though, Hermione does big stuff. It is her Time-Turner that saves things in book 3. And throughout the series (with the exception of book 7 where Rowling took a somewhat anti-rationalist stance), it almost always Hermione that figures out what the big plot is or the like. Part of why Hermione in fact looks so much weaker here is because she was the most rational character in the original, and increasing Harry’s skill set while doing much less to hers makes her look less impressive.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, Hermione wasn’t powered up at all.
a basic theory of MoR is that all the characters get automatic intelligence upgrades, except for Hermione who doesn’t need it and starts out as exactly similar to her canon self as I could manage, thus putting everyone on an equal footing for the first time.
Without diminishing the arguments of the feminist side, I think that’s pretty damn impressive.
Just to be clear, the name of the story in question is “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, which was based off of a series of seven books also titled with the name “Harry Potter”. The name of the story is not “Hermione Granger and the Methods of Rationality”. If it were, then yes, I would expect to see her impact be the larger one.
In the original though, Hermione does big stuff. It is her Time-Turner that saves things in book 3. And throughout the series (with the exception of book 7 where Rowling took a somewhat anti-rationalist stance), it almost always Hermione that figures out what the big plot is or the like. Part of why Hermione in fact looks so much weaker here is because she was the most rational character in the original, and increasing Harry’s skill set while doing much less to hers makes her look less impressive.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, Hermione wasn’t powered up at all.
Without diminishing the arguments of the feminist side, I think that’s pretty damn impressive.