[HPforGrownups] Real characters

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 50187

 

Amy wrote:

"I'm not suggesting that we stop criticizing characters.  I am 
definitely of the interpretive school that looks at them as if they 
were real people and asks what we would think of them if we met them 
in real life (after we'd finished fainting from bliss, that is).  
That means being able to say frankly, if it's true, "If I were in 
class with someone like Hermione Granger I'd want to slap her."  

I agree with Amy completely. These kids are teenagers!  Has anybody known or raised any teenager who you haven't wanted to strangle at times?  It's part of being a teenager!  As far as the adults, again, these people (except it seems Dumbledore) are not perfect!  They have their preculiarities, faults and failings like every one of us.  Now as far as somebody like Snape, his shortcomings like shown in 'The Prisioner of Azkaban' is so strong that his hatreds and anger can blind him to reason and rationality.  But even he obviously has his good points or Dumbledore wouldn't be depending on him so much.  So there is a danger of analyzing everything where every speck gets blown out of porportion. Kind of a fun thing to do though I must say.  

Huggs Becky


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