fuck me sideways

[labellementeuse]

OK now. Of all the characters in fiction everywhere, Hermione Granger is the least likely in practically the entire WORLD to change her name upon marriage. She is career-motivated, widely-read, self-sufficient, politically aware and ACTIVE, and for fuck's sake, if that wasn't enough, she's marrying someone with FIVE LIVING MALE SIBLINGS.

Why is my fiction reading life so difficult, people.

Second question: do I get to count novel-length fics as 'books read'? I just read an epic Draco/Neville fic that I'm seriously considering counting even though I've never done that before. Thoughts? It was solidly novel-length, though I'm not sure how many words (averaging out a few chapters I would say it's about 150k, which is nearly four nebula novels; HP&tDH is apparently just under 200k and HP&tPS apparently 80k.) So it's the same amount of words as a novel. And they were pretty decent words, I guess. So... well, I don't know, you tell me.

PS I really mean it about Hermione.

Comments

[kitsunerei88]

I see your point. I don't read fic, so I can't really comment on HP fic at all (mostly anything I've read dates back about eight years and comes from the horror-pit known as fanfiction.net), but your points re: Hermione are good ones.

I don't think Ron would care, one way or another. Ron doesn't come off as a particularly stubborn person compared to Hermione, I don't think.

I think it's something so ingrained in Western culture that fic writers just don't think about it. In the future I think I will always ask women I know why they are changing their names if they do so. I am always secretly looking to make people think.

I understand the point between personal/political, but it's a hard balance to work with. At this point I make what small changes I can without jeopardizing my entire career. I hate politics. Thank god I don't live in the southern states.