Title: The Girl Nobody Knows: A soliloquy
Author: Technomad
Rating: T
Genre: General
DLP Category: Dark Arts
Pairing: None
Status: One-shot
Summary: What if Hermione Granger wasn't Nice at all? This is the POV of a NotNice Hermione on the events of the first five books.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2439980/1/The_Girl_Nobody_KnowsA_Soliloquy

An awesome fic about Hermione and her desire to take over the world. A bit long (20k words), and wordy in parts, but still a good read.

 

...sits back, grabs some marshmallows, and awaits the flames. Reccing this fic is just begging for the floodgate of Hermione-hate.

I've read it, it's not bad, but I wouldn't have recc'd it. Personally, I give it a 3.5/5, but I'm not gonna vote on this thread.

 

Hermione hate aside, the fic was...acceptable. 3.5/5 from me, even though points pushed the boundaries of wtf-ism. Interestingly different from the norm.

The rip-off from LOTR was a bit amusing, too.

 

...I just... don't care about Hermione. At all. As this fic didn't make me give a shit about its main character, I'm giving it a 2/5. Decently written, but not for me.

EDIT: Read the post below for a better wording of my thoughts. DiaPB (death? boa? how the hell do I shorten this?) nailed it.

 

I personally have always loved the idea of Hermione secretly preparing to be a Dark Lady all through Hogwarts. I always though a very brief overview of her desent, followed by a long fic centered around Harry having to take that bitch down would be great fun.

That said, while I love the idea, in this case the execution was crap.

2/5, because I was bored and Hermione's mental voice is the mental voice of a rather stupid child.

 

1 star. Soliloquies always lead to the failures of evil overlord plots, and Hermione's not dumb enough to do that.

 

An evil and manipulative Hermione would actually be pretty interesting, but the execution of this idea was a big turn-off. A retelling via a mental voice seldom works well, and it didn't here. Despite the fact that I like the idea itself, there is something very boring about long rambling monologues. It would probably work much better if it was at least a series of scenes rather than a recollection--it would be a bit more engaging, although probably still not great.

 

I’d truly like to read it, but:

A sentence like that in the second paragraph? Makes me think that I’d be trying to push a fork through my ear somewhere around very very soon. No rating.

 

2/5 for me. The writing was good, but the plot itself seemed pointless. To me it was only a summary of the first five books from the slant Hermione was evil.

This could have been accomplished by copy pasting the summary's for the first five novels and then tagging on the line "Hermione is an evil genius who will conquer the magical world (or at least an acre of it.)"

 

Little thing about plots like these is that you need to be really intelligent to pull them off. Otherwise, you sound rather pretentious.

Read it a long time ago, didn't like it them either.

 

Crap.

Hermione isn't subtle enough to be manipulative, and the one thing she doesn't seem to realize is that no one would follow her. Not with Harry right next to her. Now she could probably set him up as a puppet or something, but it didn't sound like that was her plan.

1.5/5

 

This bores me.

1.7/5. Why 1.7? Because I can.