What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[marinafrants <rusalka@ix.netcom.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vojoca <vojoca at y...>" 
<vojoca at y...> wrote:
> I just noticed how the qualities that would make Marina hate Harry 
> are....close to how Harry sees Cedric Diggory.  Unfortunately, I 
only 
> have GoF as a reference for now but anyway, here goes:
> 
> GoF Chapter 22 pg 347 UK paperback edition:
> "...Cho's voice echoing in his ears with every step he 
took. 'Cedric -
>  Cedric Diggory.'  He had been starting to quite like Cedric - 
> prepared to overlook the fact that he had once beaten him at 
> Quidditch, and was handsome, and popular, and nearly everyone's 
> favourite champion. Now he suddenly realised that Cedric was in 
fact 
> a useless pretty-boy who didn't have enough brains to fill an 
eggcup."
> 
> 
> 
> I almost roll my eyes when I read parts about Cedric and his 
> nobleness/perfectness and how he MUST do everything that is noble 
and 
> not boast about it, how he's SUCH a gentleman, how polite he is, 
how 
> tall and handsome he is....
> 
> It's just me, I guess, I can't stand "perfect people" in real life.

Well, that's why the books aren't all called "Cedric Diggory and..."
And if Cedric had been the protagonist of the series, we would no 
doubt discover that he has a number of characters flaws that Harry 
never got to see.  Harry never got to know him that well after all, 
and neither did we as readers.  We don't know what he's like at 
home, or hanging around the dorm with his Hufflepuff buddies, or 
alone with nobody watching.  We certainly aren't privvy to his 
thoughts.  If we were, I'm sure we'd discover he has a whole bunch 
of annoying traits to make us like him better. :-)

Marina
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