The abused child fics out there are pretty rough to read and yes some do go overboard. As I posted I really do believe the writers of most of them haven't a clue as to how abuse works on the victim. Harry is abused enough with the emotional abuse and physical neglect of the Dursleys. Personally I think a great many of these uberabuse stories are written by kids who think abuse is not getting the latest XBox game. Which sounds real crappy of me but there really doesn't seem to be any interest on their part into researching the affects of it or nature of it.
The trend of abused Hermione makes me laugh. If anyone is indulged and spoiled by the parents it is Hermione. She comes off in the books that way to me. There are plenty of characters who've been abused as shown by canon without adding to it in fanfiction and Hermione is not one of them. Hermione strikes me as the proverbial only child who gets everything she wants and knows it. She also appreciates it, at least as I see it.
Abuse is very dificult to read for me. And rapefic is damned near impossible. It squicks the hell outta me to see a rapefic where the victim falls in love with the rapist. I just can't buy it.
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Date: 2005-04-13 03:28 pm (UTC)The trend of abused Hermione makes me laugh. If anyone is indulged and spoiled by the parents it is Hermione. She comes off in the books that way to me. There are plenty of characters who've been abused as shown by canon without adding to it in fanfiction and Hermione is not one of them. Hermione strikes me as the proverbial only child who gets everything she wants and knows it. She also appreciates it, at least as I see it.
Abuse is very dificult to read for me. And rapefic is damned near impossible. It squicks the hell outta me to see a rapefic where the victim falls in love with the rapist. I just can't buy it.