Movie dialogue (FF)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 13187

Damn it all, I only know one line from the movie and I dislike it.  
Grrr.

I'll give a spoiler space for those who want to come to the teaser 
trailer without preconceptions!
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www.countingdown.com reports that the one line of dialogue in the 
teaser trailer is Hagrid saying, "Harry, you're the boy that lived!"  
I have a pet peeve about this line.  Don't ask me to explain it 
rationally, but it has to do with the fact that fans (e.g. writers, 
and presumably readers, of fanfic) are WAY more enamored of the whole 
"Boy Who Lived" thing than Jo herself seems to be.  It shows up once 
in the books, and if it survives beyond the first few days of 
celebration after Voldemort's fall, we see no evidence of it.  Yes, 
JKR makes it the title of the first chapter, so she must like it (it 
does, after all, sum up what is astonishing about Harry), but she 
doesn't use it again--Hermione doesn't say upon meeting him, "I know 
you, you're The Boy Who Lived," or any of that.  It seems right as a 
toast during all the celebration; as a repeated phrase, it seems 
stilted.

In fanfic it's everywhere.  I'm not sure why people seize on this 
phrase, but in my mind it says little about Harry that I care about, 
and just has the ring of a slogan, which is the closest I can come to 
explaining why I dislike the emphasis on it.  In fanfic it tends to 
give me the feeling that the authors are trying to crowbar their way 
into familiarity with this world (like when they say 50 times a page 
that Ron's hair is flaming red), when if they truly felt at home 
there, they'd pick up on something more subtle.

Sigh...

Amy Z  

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