In the Harry Potter Original I was the smart one of the trio. I could have been sorted into Ravenclaw because of my smartness, but ended up in Gryffindor because of my courage.
I gave courage to smart girls and women to speak out. I fought alongside two boys, always thinking, learning and looking ahead.
I helped fight the dementors, the deep depression Rowling must have known, even if Harry was most vulerable to it.
And now? I am “emotional good”, barely good enough for the phoenix test.
Why didn´t I win the “enders game” battle in the middle of the series.
Even then I was seen more of a thing two boys fight over, not a human.
I was there to be protected, to be made into a unicorn or whatever. I, along with the other girls were there to be raped or cherished, proteced or loved.
Am I a thing here, not seen as a human beeing? Wasn´t this what Terry Pratchett warned against again and again?
I am a woman, like roughly half of humanity. I am a human beeing. This is not a story I wish to be in.
Now, I thought a little about my own comment and asked myself two questions.
For whom did I write it?
Now, first to mind comes my heroine ,Emmy Noether, the inventor of this little, uncomplete and so useful axiom system—the group and its derivates.
Second is Mileva Einstein-Marić, who wrote a bunch of papers together with her later husband. The last ones were published under the name “Einstein”, because they were already married by then.
He got the nobel prize for them. He took the honor ( I think, he might have been into the anti atom movement by then ). He gave her the money. Was it only to keep care of one of their sons?
Or was it a overlooked sign to the world? Einsteins opinion of the stupidity of humens is well known.
And geometry (see Noether) must have been a big thing by the time Mileva studied mathematics.
The third group I wrote this for, I can only think on in bitterness:
The women in Iran. They must fight for their right not to be pounded to death, just because someone thougt he or she saw a hair outside the burkha.
In all the wars and dying that goes on right now, this is one I think is a bit overlooked: girls of fourteen or fifteen years fighting for the right just to be.
With whos voices exept my own can I speak with?
One is a voice of the past: Selma Lagerlöf, the nobel prize winner, who 1911 gave a speech for the womens right movement in sweden. I think the title in English must be something like “home and country”.
The other voice is Douglas Hofstaedter, whos “metamagicum” I always enjoyed, subchapter seven. Since I read it in German, it might be different to the english version, he took great care with the translation especially in this chapter.
Hermiones Voice
Where am I? What has been done to me?
In the Harry Potter Original I was the smart one of the trio. I could have been sorted into Ravenclaw because of my smartness, but ended up in Gryffindor because of my courage.
I gave courage to smart girls and women to speak out. I fought alongside two boys, always thinking, learning and looking ahead.
I helped fight the dementors, the deep depression Rowling must have known, even if Harry was most vulerable to it.
And now? I am “emotional good”, barely good enough for the phoenix test.
Why didn´t I win the “enders game” battle in the middle of the series.
Even then I was seen more of a thing two boys fight over, not a human.
I was there to be protected, to be made into a unicorn or whatever. I, along with the other girls were there to be raped or cherished, proteced or loved.
Am I a thing here, not seen as a human beeing? Wasn´t this what Terry Pratchett warned against again and again?
I am a woman, like roughly half of humanity. I am a human beeing. This is not a story I wish to be in.
That would not be rational.
Now, I thought a little about my own comment and asked myself two questions.
For whom did I write it?
Now, first to mind comes my heroine ,Emmy Noether, the inventor of this little, uncomplete and so useful axiom system—the group and its derivates.
Second is Mileva Einstein-Marić, who wrote a bunch of papers together with her later husband. The last ones were published under the name “Einstein”, because they were already married by then.
He got the nobel prize for them. He took the honor ( I think, he might have been into the anti atom movement by then ). He gave her the money. Was it only to keep care of one of their sons?
Or was it a overlooked sign to the world? Einsteins opinion of the stupidity of humens is well known.
And geometry (see Noether) must have been a big thing by the time Mileva studied mathematics.
The third group I wrote this for, I can only think on in bitterness:
The women in Iran. They must fight for their right not to be pounded to death, just because someone thougt he or she saw a hair outside the burkha.
In all the wars and dying that goes on right now, this is one I think is a bit overlooked: girls of fourteen or fifteen years fighting for the right just to be.
With whos voices exept my own can I speak with?
One is a voice of the past: Selma Lagerlöf, the nobel prize winner, who 1911 gave a speech for the womens right movement in sweden. I think the title in English must be something like “home and country”.
The other voice is Douglas Hofstaedter, whos “metamagicum” I always enjoyed, subchapter seven. Since I read it in German, it might be different to the english version, he took great care with the translation especially in this chapter.