Harry (mis)characterisation (Re: favorite quotes)

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illyana delorean wrote:

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> Am I the only person who thought that the Lucius/Harry exchange 
> in Dumbledore's office was completely cheesy? (You know, the "save 
> the day/I will be" thing) Everyone seems to love it.

I absolutely HATED it.


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Much has been made in some posts of the way Kloves and/or Columbus 
seem to misunderstand what Harry's about. That line of Harry's 
(suggested to Dan by Columbus, and furthermore to be delivered "like 
Clint Eastwood") is *SO* not Harry. 

Harry doesn't SEE himself as a hero, and he doesn't WANT to be a 
hero. He gets dragged into confrontations with Voldemort etc against 
his will, and he gets involved only to save himself from further 
harm, but he doesn't go out of his way to be a hero or to right all 
that's wrong in the world. Given the choice, he'd take a quiet life 
every time. 

Ultimately, it's all been about self-preservation, and occasionally 
the preservation of his friends (which boils down to the same thing). 

He takes no particular pleasure in being the hero, and doesn't rally 
see anything he's done as particularly heroic. Confronting Lucius 
with a line like that just doesn't ring true for me.