I was not aware of Women in Refrigerators as a trope at the time I wrote that chapter, let alone at the time the outcome of Hermione’s meeting with the troll was determined as part of the plot—which was the instant I thought ‘What happens with the troll?’ back when the fic was being formed, insofar as I’d read that scene a dozen times in a dozen fanfictions and nobody ever gets hurt. That event was one of the primordial ingredients of HPMOR, and canon!Hermione is the troll’s target in canon, and that is the true causal origin, period.
With respect, I don’t think your reply actually answers the parent at all? He didn’t posit that you were aware of the WiR trope or wrote an instantiation of same deliberately.
On the contrary, he asks what it would take to make you consider that you had inadvertently conformed to “Q” [WiR], despite your intention to write “P,” something completely different.
EDITED: I’m sorry, on re-read he did posit awareness of WiR. I would suggest the point stands even if you had been unaware.
I was not aware of Women in Refrigerators as a trope at the time I wrote that chapter, let alone at the time the outcome of Hermione’s meeting with the troll was determined as part of the plot—which was the instant I thought ‘What happens with the troll?’ back when the fic was being formed, insofar as I’d read that scene a dozen times in a dozen fanfictions and nobody ever gets hurt. That event was one of the primordial ingredients of HPMOR, and canon!Hermione is the troll’s target in canon, and that is the true causal origin, period.
With respect, I don’t think your reply actually answers the parent at all? He didn’t posit that you were aware of the WiR trope or wrote an instantiation of same deliberately.
On the contrary, he asks what it would take to make you consider that you had inadvertently conformed to “Q” [WiR], despite your intention to write “P,” something completely different.
EDITED: I’m sorry, on re-read he did posit awareness of WiR. I would suggest the point stands even if you had been unaware.