[HPforGrownups] Re: Interesting Article

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No: HPFGUIDX 46345

In a message dated 11/08/2002 01:25:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
anakinbester at hotmail.com writes:


> 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.

Exactly! It's a huge movement in fiction to now produce a hero that is the 
"ever wo/man" able to face astounding odds. I'm always moved when I read the 
part in GoF where Harry gets hugged by Mrs. Weasley. Something most of us 
probably take for granted - human contact - is something Harry always lacked, 
yet he does not whine or cry about it. Heck, RON complains more about his 
life than Harry does. Harry just takes it all in the chin and rolls with it.

Personally, I think that if any REAL boy Harry's age faced what he has, 
having his world turned upside down over and over again, he'd go insane. 
Harry's fictional and admirable in his survival abilities.

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