Now, see, you raised my curiosity, and I had to go see what the reviews in question were. Poor thing! Of course, I adore your HP (and will just have to friend you rather than waiting on it at TtM - can see that now). For myself, I get very, very frustrated when I feel something I've written isn't "gotten." This is especially true when I've gone to what I feel are great lengths to make sure it is gotten. My husband, the former English teacher, gets onto me about this, maintaining that the author is the very last person who should be asked what he/she meant in a piece or whether something was delivered appropriately. I humbly (or not so much *grins*) disagree. Write what you feel you need to and screw the people who say you're writing OOC. I mean, sometimes we goof, sure, but if you've deliberated on the comments and still feel you wrote Hermione appropriately, then let it go.

By the way, you handled those comments very well. I'm awed! So gracious.

(And this happened to me once here. Not the same sort of comments but rather that I wrote something metaphorical I thought was particularly obvious and seemed to be read in a vastly different way by the majority of people. Although I was dismayed, I ultimately just had to let it go.)

Keep the faith. You're doing great! *hard squeeze*