Harry Potter is a superior book series to Twilight.

I see the term better in this case is being used loosely. In the case of Hermione Granger, of the Harry Potter Series Vs Bella Swan of Twilight series, I see it to be unfair fight. My point being that for the Twilight books, Bella is meant to be a portrayal of how teen girls of today act when they feel they are in love. Bella's reactions to her feelings of Edward leaving her for the "greater good" are based in the sad truth of what girls today do. The reactions and reasons for Bella's way of thinking and actions have been met with honesty, from thousands of teen girls. Hermione on the other hand is "strong" or stubborn to a fault. Her stubbornness only leading her to trouble. In the first book of the series, Hermione does want to make an example of her superior knowledge by finding the troll that has entered the school, this leads her to need Harry and Ron to save her. Hermione's fundamental intelligence, isn't meant to be realistic to the views of the age group the book is presented to. You make the basic point between to the two books, that there is a generalized sexism. Allow me to point several things out. Let's begin with looks. Hermione is seen to be, unattractive in her description, with frizzy hair and buck teeth. Bella is seen to be simply plain. I see there being something wrong with this. While Bella may not be spoken as intelligent, and her grades never come into question, why is then, there is a point made that Hermione is highly intelligent. My point here is that JK Rowling, obviously points at the unattractive girls need to be smart to make them any kind of appealing, whereas Stephanie Meyer, projects that plain girls, can be perfectly beautiful. Moving on to my next point toward the sexism, point blank, yes, Bella is seen in the kitchen making food for her father, is there anything wrong with that? No there is not. This shows she is nurturing and caring of her father who is less inclined to care for himself. Hermione seems quite selfish and content with not being very nurturing of her two best friends and is often very uninvolved in their feelings. And once more allow me to move forward, in Twilight, Edward is the 'Hero' of the book, it is his job to save Bella. He is the Superman to her Louis Lane. In Harry Potter, there is no real direct person to save Hermione should she be in trouble, in fact, she is seen as "Heroine" in the novels. Overall I feel to compare the two females, while enticing as it may be, is an unfair fight, strictly based on their gender, and not for their significant roles in each of the series. As far as how the character's are portrayed, I feel Rowling's representation on realism, is incorrect. Her character's find themselves in predicaments not poignant to those found in Twilight. But to play nice, I would like to use the fact that the age group targeted for Rowling's books, are much younger and more impressionable, the need to represent character's into a "fathomable qualitied people" is truly unrealistic. Her character's show almost a super human level of intelligence and maturity for their respective situations that no real child could live up to. Meyer on the other hand has a firm basis for portraying her characters in each of their respective roles, for a modern day approach at how the age group targeted has and can be in real life.