overreaching and needing to go for the fabulous secret Hermione plan, which goes beyond being desperate to help Harry.
All these situations are pretty much written almost like any horror movie, where no-one can do the sensible thing because it wouldn't be dramatic - Harry could disarm Draco (or vice versa), Hermione or Harry could call for help - but yeah, at this point, especially with Hermione looking 'triumphant', it seems like it's gone beyond 'OMG, this person is going to Crucio my BFF!' into 'Haha, you're going to get yours, bitch!' and wanting to get some concrete revenge rather than the anti-climactic 'Flitwick called Aurors, we're okay!' or whatever. (Which I think is definitely a part of things in OotP - everyone's keen to be a grown-up and fight some battles, just like in the MoM when they're all disappointed that Sirius isn't there and they'd wanted something 'exciting' to happen.) But then, I guess that's what the readers supposed to be feeling by then. Whether that's because Hermione (like her friends) is heading down a dark path and JKR's planning to go somewhere with that, or whether that's because this is the default reaction to events in the books - let's see something bad happen to the baddies and feel better - I don't know.
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Date: 2006-11-16 10:24 am (UTC)All these situations are pretty much written almost like any horror movie, where no-one can do the sensible thing because it wouldn't be dramatic - Harry could disarm Draco (or vice versa), Hermione or Harry could call for help - but yeah, at this point, especially with Hermione looking 'triumphant', it seems like it's gone beyond 'OMG, this person is going to Crucio my BFF!' into 'Haha, you're going to get yours, bitch!' and wanting to get some concrete revenge rather than the anti-climactic 'Flitwick called Aurors, we're okay!' or whatever.
(Which I think is definitely a part of things in OotP - everyone's keen to be a grown-up and fight some battles, just like in the MoM when they're all disappointed that Sirius isn't there and they'd wanted something 'exciting' to happen.)
But then, I guess that's what the readers supposed to be feeling by then. Whether that's because Hermione (like her friends) is heading down a dark path and JKR's planning to go somewhere with that, or whether that's because this is the default reaction to events in the books - let's see something bad happen to the baddies and feel better - I don't know.