[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harry is dull

[kokobreen at juno.com]

I agree completely.  Harry in nocturne alley is seriously so dull I skip
his posts!  Draco is killer funny, Ron is great, the others are wonderful
too, but why is the main star so darn dull?

Christine


On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:38:49 -0000 "Amy Z" <lupinesque at yahoo.com> writes:
> --- 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
> 
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