Harry is dull

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Kristjan Arnason <karnasaur at y...> wrote:
> 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

Kris, you are dangerously on-topic here.  The Mods might have to send 
you a Howler.  

<g>  Just kidding, but this IS a topic about the books themselves, 
it's one that has been raised--and raised interesting conversations--
on the main list before, and it really belongs there.  Would you re-
post it over there?  The RPG part, if it were the point of the post, 
would be OT, but the canon point is thought-provoking and people on 
the main list might like to tackle it.

Amy Z
who finds Harry anything but dull