Boring Harry Potter

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No: HPFGUIDX 34276

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "zoehooch" <zoehooch at y...> wrote:
> I've been struck lately by the number of posts pointing out all of 
> the negative opinions of characters in our, or at least my, 
favorite 
> books.

I couldn't agree with you more, Zoe. I've been wondering lately if 
many of the posters even enjoy the books as written, or if they feel 
that they could personally improve them by changing the characters' 
behavior, or plotlines.
I think that the reason we're seeing this kind of nitpicking is that 
it's been a year and a half since Goblet of Fire came out, and most 
of the really juicy questions and puzzles have been analyzed to death 
multiple times.  You can only go over the four books so many times 
before you run out of new things to say about the story. It's 
probably natural to start finding fault with things that wouldn't 
bother the ordinary, non-obsessive reader (not too many of those on 
this list <g>) when you are going through them for the 10th time.


Zoe wrote:

> To me, the glorious thing about these books and these characters is 
> that they are flawed, indeed they are quite human in this way, but 
> even with these flaws, they are quite wonderful and prove their 
worth 
> in so many ways. JKR tells us who the good guys are, and I'm 
prepared 
> to take her word on that. 




I don't even think that the characters "flaws" really are flaws in 
the literal sense of the word.  They are what make them so real and  
entertaining (which is probably just re-stating what you've already 
said).
I'm more than willing to follow her wherever she takes the story and 
characters, even if it's in a direction that I *think* I'd hate if 
you suggested it today.  You either trust her vision, or you don't.

Jo, becoming ever more desperate for book 5