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

[vojoca <vojoca@yahoo.com>]

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Marina wrote:

> 
> 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
> rusalka at i...



and now me:
Harry never *did* get to know Cedric, which is partly why it annoyed 
me so much, I think.  He just basically saw Cedric as the epitome of 
perfectness that I hoped (and still do, even after what happened in 
GoF) that we would find out about some sort of deep dark secret that 
made him not-so-perfect.  (oooohh maybe we will!! crosses fingers)  
After all, the ones who seem oh-so-perfect are usually the ones who 
have the most to hide (based on my experience, anyway.)  

note: the things they are hiding are not necessarily evil; with all 
these Evil!characterOfChoiceHere threads I don't want to be 
misunderstood ;-)


But seriously.  All I *really really* want is to find out some sort 
of flaw about the tall handsome seeker of the hufflepuff quidditch 
team who's a better school champion who takes care of his wand who 
gets the girl.  Then I wouldn't be as annoyed with him :-p



vojoca