[HPforGrownups] Re: Gender balance/strong women

[Rina Stewart]

No: HPFGUIDX 15069

Susan wrote:

<<Sure, and I am very fond of you and Neil and Penny...and Penny for 
gosh sakes don't take this wrong, but you're all beginning to sound 
very lame about how the only argument is to take it from Harry's 
adolescent boy point of view...>>

I don't think it's the only argument, but it's certainly valid. The stories would be immensely different from Ron or Hermione's POVs. We would know different characters in different ways. We would see the world through their eyes. Right now we see it through Harry, who is a fourteen year old boy. He's not going to notice the same things Hermione would, or even Ron for that matter. The books are in third person limited, yes? We know only what Harry is thinking, know what Harry knows. So of course we get a biased view on everything.

Rina 
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