[HPforGrownups] Real characters

[Eileen]

No: HPFGUIDX 50188

 --- "Amy Z <lupinesque at yahoo.com>"
<lupinesque at yahoo.com> wrote: > Ebony's post, and more
especially Eileen's follow-up
> trashing Ron 
> *and* Harry, made me think about how we tend to chew
> up characters if 
> they are less than perfect.  We're like the Donner
> Party at this 
> point.  After two and a half years without fresh
> meat, we're reduced 
> to cannibalism--not eating each other but munching
> on the characters 
> we've got stashed in the hold.

Oh dear, no! I was in prime mood for Harry and Ron
trashing the moment I finished GoF! The only reason I
haven't done much of that on the list is that Harry
and Ron are so much less interesting than the other
characters we could trash. 
 
But, really, you don't know what character trashing is
until you've hung around with rabid Tolkien fans. The
uninitiated might suppose that Tolkien fans don't like
any of his characters. The truth is that the
characters have become so important to fans that they
take on a life of their own. And once they do that, we
react to them like real people, by providing different
perspectives on them, satirizing them, poking at them,
trashing at them. I don't at all think it's a bad
thing to trash characters. 

> I know I'm echoing what many have said when I say
> that I love most of 
> these characters *because* they're imperfect. 

Well, of course, PACMAN. Perfectly  Angelic Characters
Make Awful Novels. The inconsiderateness and idiocy of
Ron and Harry are actually what make me love them as
characters, even though they irritate me as people. 

Though, of course, being a rabid shipper, there was an
obvious subtext to my post, which was that Harry isn't
anymore appropriate than Ron if you want to pair
Hermione up with a considerate boy. :-)

> Fortunately, a 
> truckload of food arrives in five months.

And we can start trashing Mundungus Fletcher.

Eileen

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