Harry is Dull

[Tamara]

I had a moment to speak once to a boy who attended prep school with 
Dan Radcliffe in London, after the first HP film came out, and he 
said he was a "normal, funny, bloke".  It remains to be see whether 
or not any acting talent he may, or may not have, will take him to 
any roles after HP. 

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
> This thread started on the OT list, then moved to the main list 
when 
> canon started getting quoted, but now I want to bring up something 
> which completes the triad and makes *this* list the most 
relevant. :-)
> 
> Pip mentioned that the main reason why Harry might be seen 
as "dull" 
> is perhaps that he sees himself that way. I'd like to draw a 
parallel 
> with the movie series, and in particular with young Master 
Radcliffe, 
> recently the subject of much adulation and admiration from people 
> here, some of whom are closer to, or (like me) entirely of, his 
> parents' generation rather than his. :-)
> 
> Just like Harry's position in the wizarding world in which Harry 
> refuses to see himself as something special and gets embarassed 
when 
> people make a fuss, Dan seems oblivious to the clamour around him. 
> He's clearly intelligent and surely it hasn't escaped his attention 
> that he's the most famous teeenager in Britain, if not on the 
planet. 
> 
> Yet when asked about being famous, his only comment is that he 
enjoys 
> being stopped in the street because people are enthusiatic about 
the 
> film. Quite simply, I refuse to believe that that's the case, that 
> girls (in particular) don't fawn over him. He's said that his 
> schoolmates in his new school don't give him any special treatment 
> (though with all the media coverage all last week, he's surely 
going 
> to be the centre of attraction tomorrow!). :-) 
> 
> All in all, he insists in every interview that he is, for want of a 
> better word, "dull": a normal kid with normal interests leading a 
> normal life. He's clearly aware that this "normality" comes thanks 
to 
> the efforts of lots of people, not least his parents, but he 
appears 
> to do nothing to dispel it. He has internet access at home, yet 
> appears not to have any interest in what people are saying about 
him. 
> Heck, he doesn't even need internet access - every single British 
> mass-market newspaper carried a full-page article yesterday about 
> Friday's press conference, most of them concentrating on how much 
> he's grown. 
> 
> Like Harry, whether or not his celebrity is justified, whether he's 
> famous thanks to his parents or just "pure dumb luck" (to quote 
> McGonagall), he is very special if only because he doesn't see 
> himself as such and insists that people not give him special 
> treatment. Like Harry, he is simply too well grounded and too, 
well, 
> *nice* to be "normal". And that's what makes both the actor and the 
> character he plays very, very special indeed...