Hatchet job on Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 46372

A piece in todays (9 Nov 2002) Slate magazine assessing Harry Potters 
character.

Briefy, and invoking canon events Chris Suellentrop claims to 'expose 
Harry Potter for the Fraud he is' specifically a:

Pampered Jock

Patsy

Trust Fund Brat.

The basic argument is that Harry Potter is a fraud, and the cult that 
has risen around him is based on a lie. 

To find the piece go to
http://slate.msn.com/

current url http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073627

If you need to search the archive try putting in suellentrop as 
search term and sorting results by date for 8.11.2002 piece.

Chris Suellentrop is Slate's deputy Washington bureau chief. You can 
e-mail him at ... well, see the foot of the SLATE page.

Text includes:

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Like most heroes, Harry Potter possesses the requisite Boy Scout 
virtues: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, 
obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. But so do 
lots of boys and girls, and they don't get books and movies named 
after them. Why isn't the movie that comes out next week titled Ron 
Weasley and the Chamber of Secrets? Why isn't its sequel dubbed 
Hermione Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban? Why Harry? What makes 
him so special?

Simple: He's a glory hog who unfairly receives credit for the 
accomplishments of others and who skates through school by taking 
advantage of his inherited wealth and his establishment connections. 
Harry Potter is no braver than his best friend, Ron Weasley, just 
richer and better-connected. Harry's other good friend, Hermione 
Granger, is smarter and a better student. The one thing Harry excels 
at is the sport of Quidditch, and his pampered-jock status allows him 
to slide in his studies, as long as he brings the school glory on the 
playing field. But as Charles Barkley long ago noted, being a good 
athlete doesn't make you a role model. 

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