I guess it's also sort of interesting to turn it around and say if Scully provides this kind of check for Mulder by being a person he considers when he acts, then what does Mulder provide for Scully? Perhaps Scully and Hermione both yearn for a figure who seems to embody something himself...
Now, see, that's exactly as I see both of them. Scully got a *lot* from her connection with Mulder - he inspired her to question everything she thought she knew, to encounter spirituality more aggressively, to think outside the bounds of science and casual religion...god, consider how much she grew and changed from the beginning of the series to the end. She wasn't even the same person. That's why to me it's such a crock to try to pidgeon-hole her as anyone's moral center, because it implies a one-way street which is so emphatically not the case. She was Mulder's Madonna; but Mulder was her Schroedinger's Cat.
But yes, I saw that too, that desire to idealize her. I saw it in the writing in the show itself, which was part of the reason I sort of lost interest in one of the later seasons (and because of that completely missed the last couple of seasons). She was left on the pedestal; her complexity was washed out by what she was supposed to be for Mulder.
I think Hermione also is pulled to Harry for what he could be for her. I think to her Harry gives her an opportunity to both break rules (go against the strictures drummed into her by her upbringing/society/whatever the source) and get away with it; and also someone to validate her. If she's the best friend of The Boy Who Lived, then she must be on the right track - she's automatically one of the good guys; there's her best example for why she's always right; and Harry needs someone who knows all the spells and all the answers and who better to provide that than the smartest girl in all Hogwarts? So, yes, I do think a good argument could be made to support the idea that Hermione gets something from her relationship with Harry...
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Date: 2004-04-29 11:53 am (UTC)Now, see, that's exactly as I see both of them. Scully got a *lot* from her connection with Mulder - he inspired her to question everything she thought she knew, to encounter spirituality more aggressively, to think outside the bounds of science and casual religion...god, consider how much she grew and changed from the beginning of the series to the end. She wasn't even the same person. That's why to me it's such a crock to try to pidgeon-hole her as anyone's moral center, because it implies a one-way street which is so emphatically not the case. She was Mulder's Madonna; but Mulder was her Schroedinger's Cat.
But yes, I saw that too, that desire to idealize her. I saw it in the writing in the show itself, which was part of the reason I sort of lost interest in one of the later seasons (and because of that completely missed the last couple of seasons). She was left on the pedestal; her complexity was washed out by what she was supposed to be for Mulder.
I think Hermione also is pulled to Harry for what he could be for her. I think to her Harry gives her an opportunity to both break rules (go against the strictures drummed into her by her upbringing/society/whatever the source) and get away with it; and also someone to validate her. If she's the best friend of The Boy Who Lived, then she must be on the right track - she's automatically one of the good guys; there's her best example for why she's always right; and Harry needs someone who knows all the spells and all the answers and who better to provide that than the smartest girl in all Hogwarts? So, yes, I do think a good argument could be made to support the idea that Hermione gets something from her relationship with Harry...