bubblegumpopper’s Reviews > Australia > Status Update

I can't wait for this to be over! At least they finally found her parents. If only more than 7% max of the book was spent on them and her restoring their memories and there wasn't hundreds of pages of Ron's toxic thought vomit!

So close...and yet sooooooooooo far. :'(

Ron has spent the entire book up until this point intensely paranoid about everyone. Now, because it is "convenient", he is just instantly trusting this stranger they've met and is onboard for traveling across a country with him. Not at all unbelievable or nonsensical.

Oh goodie. We are finally in the Hermione-centric part of the story where we get to focus on her story and her search for her parents...and then the author tips that motivation away from her and gives it to Ron instead. Oofta, the blatant sexism in this is so overwhelming. Hermione is just a prop. Ron could just as well be hanging out in Australia with a blow-up doll.

a) It would be "coarse bandages", not "course bandages" (this mistake has been made twice now.
b) That doesn't even make sense. What is she doing? Wrapping her wounds up in sandpaper?? Bandages are generally soft...you know...because they're used against WOUNDS.

Literally nothing happened in this chapter except they made a few phone calls and did some lip-locked acrobatics on a couch. So many words, nothing said.

Remains awful. I am really disliking how unhealthy their relationship is, and yet it's presented as if it is a normal thing. The way Ron treats Hermione in this fic is not normal and Hermione should be dumping his sorry ass and dating Krum instead.

"He'd come close to thinking somewhere along the banks of the Caspian Sea, that he'd lost Hermione."

At no point in this trip have they entered any country that borders the Caspian Sea. Seriously, just open up a frigging map and fact check yourself!