Interesting Article

[anakinbester]

No: HPFGUIDX 46333


Jim Wrote:

> Isn't it interesting that the author seems to believe that a 
teenage wizard 
> should be able to defeat one of the greatest evil wizards of all 
time (and 
> a handful of his minions) without any help? 


I agree; I find that charge a bit silly. I think it's heroic enough 
that Harry choose to try and _fight_ Voldemort at all, rather than 
just run away or give in. That's a lot for a 14 year old, and as 
Peter so wonderfully proves, something that not all adults can do. 

Also, I find it odd that Harry is being accused of . . . getting 
help! Dear Lord, the boy can't do everything by himself; he needs his 
friends? This is bad? 
To me, something that makes him a hero is the fact that is his not a 
stereotypical self-absorbed jock. The wizarding world's adoration of 
him has not gone to his head. I don't think Harry sees himself as 
anyone special. He has certainly never asked for or expected special 
treatment. In fact, he's quite bewildered by it when he gets it on 
PoA. 

As for getting gift . . .  so if Harry's accomplishments are 
belittled by the fact that he gets expensive or unusual gifts, then 
what, my accomplishments as an artists are belittle because my 
parents spent several hundred to get me a drafting table and paints 
and such before I had a job? 

Yes Harry is given things. Everyone is given things. The point is, 
Harry uses what he's given. And, I don't think he takes it for 
granted. 

All the complaints the writers brought up are, for me, what makes 
Harry so likable. No he can't do it all on his own. Yes, he is indeed 
very average. He's not even brilliant in school. Yes, his mother gave 
him life, and now he must make something of it. I don't know, to me, 
if he weren't all those things, he'd be unrealistic and boring. 

Speaking of unrealistic, I found the article particularly funny 
because 
A: It read like something Snape might write ^__^
B: It read like the author thought Harry was a real person. Did 
anyone else get this feeling? Half the things he brought up were 
something that seemed aimed more at a real life person than a 
fictional hero.  

-Ani