Okay, then: the longish paragraph in the middle of pegkerr's post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/pegkerr/479740.html) and junediamanti's longish essay (http://www.livejournal.com/users/junediamanti/137229.html).
Re: Hermione--prior to OotP, she was the female char of the kids' generation most mangled in fanfic. Not everyone writes Sue, deliberately or inadvertently, but I find the sheer range of (re)characterizations telling. There's just enough on the page for some readers to seize upon bits: people told off for knowing everything(tm), perfectionists, those who workworkwork, who organized or wanted to organize recuperative crusades, who had unruly hair, who always receive(d) good marks.... And one proceeds thence, it seems, while ignoring all the other traits. (Then there's the posts saying so on lj and on one Y! Group where I lurk; that's even more anecdotal because I can't claim to achieve an even sampling of data, nor would I want to have it.)
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Re: Hermione--prior to OotP, she was the female char of the kids' generation most mangled in fanfic. Not everyone writes Sue, deliberately or inadvertently, but I find the sheer range of (re)characterizations telling. There's just enough on the page for some readers to seize upon bits: people told off for knowing everything(tm), perfectionists, those who workworkwork, who organized or wanted to organize recuperative crusades, who had unruly hair, who always receive(d) good marks.... And one proceeds thence, it seems, while ignoring all the other traits. (Then there's the posts saying so on lj and on one Y! Group where I lurk; that's even more anecdotal because I can't claim to achieve an even sampling of data, nor would I want to have it.)