I agree with your comment regarding Rowling - book 7 had them doing all sorts of OOC things that didn't sit with what had gone before. But I have a problem with submissive Hermione as I just can't see an evidence to support it. A bit of experimentation in a loving relationship, yes, but unless there's a reason for d/s 'games' with a total stranger - some kind of post-war survivor's guilt, perhaps, a desperate need for approval from someone she left for dead, a blow to the head or a curse, I can't buy it. And by 'abuse' I meant that Snape is not respecting her limits and basically treating her like shit.
But I have a problem with submissive Hermione as I just can't see an evidence to support it. A bit of experimentation in a loving relationship, yes, but unless there's a reason for d/s 'games' with a total stranger - some kind of post-war survivor's guilt, perhaps, a desperate need for approval from someone she left for dead, a blow to the head or a curse, I can't buy it. And by 'abuse' I meant that Snape is not respecting her limits and basically treating her like shit.