Harry is dull

[Kristjan Arnason]

First, I loved 14 year old Liz' post.  It was a
remarkably honest and fascinating description of how
the female mind, which at 30 I still don't understand,
works.  Oh!  Don't go out with either of them.  First
relationships never work.  Date another boy first.

Anyway, I was reading the Nocturne Alley site when I
realized something.  All the people in the game, or
whatever it is, seem to have their characters nailed. 
Ron is great.  Draco is hilarious.  Percy is
(intentionally) unintentionally hilarious.  He's my
favaourite, in fact.  And Harry is deadly dull.

And so is Harry in the books.  What interests does he
have?  What personality quirks does he displace? 
Apart from surviving an LV AK what makes him
interesting?  Okay, he's a seeker and all that, and he
defeated LV at the end of the first book because of
something in his skin, and defeated him again in the
second book because a pheonix showed up out of
nowhere, and saved the day in the third book after
Dumbledore strongly hinted that he should use
Hermione's Time Turner, and then survived LV again in
the fourth book due to some fluke involving the origin
of their wands, but so what?

Everything happens to Harry, but what does he really
do?  What initiative has he ever taken?

I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest
that Moaning Myrtle and Mrs. Norris have displayed
more PERSONALITY than Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived
To Bore Draco To Death, has.  Maybe it's just because
he's essentially the narrator, I don't know.

Take care,

Kris



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