[HPforGrownups] give shipping peace a chance [was] Real characters

[Eileen]

No: HPFGUIDX 50211

 --- Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at yahoo.com> wrote: > Amy
Z:
> Putting characters under the 
> microscope for detailed 
> examinations is, well, why I 
> still lurk here after so many 
> months.  I certainly don't 
> advocate putting characters 
> on pedestals and altars, but 
> going to the extreme opposite 
> of beatification in demonizing 
> certain characters for the sake 
> of winning an argument is more 
> rhetorically exciting than 
> textually insightful.

Oh dear, do I see a pattern here? 

You can write a nine part series demonizing Crouch Sr.
and no-one raises an eyebrow, but write a post calling
Harry or Ron inconsiderate and the writer is assumed
to be doing it for the sake of winning an argument, or
because of their ship. 

Ebony claims not to be comfortable with R/Hr *because*
of her uncomfortableness with Ron. The truth is, that
I'm uncomfortable with both Harry and Ron. And I claim
that I felt this way before I even considered shipping
in the Potter books. 

Why would anyone doubt our claims? 

Because Harry and Ron are popular characters? And
attacking them is just not done?

And people who claim not to wholeheartedly and
unreservedly like them must have some motivation other
than their instinctive reaction to the text?

Shades of the great Twins discussion here.

So, in conclusion, I think Harry and Ron are
inconsiderate, and I would not be friends with them in
real life most probably, not least because they
wouldn't care to be friends with me. :-) They annoy me
terribly. As characters in a book, I love them, and
hope to see them mature. I don't see how that position
is rhetorical, or how any other person's like,
dislike, adoration of, atttraction to, or lukewarmness
about any given character should be assumed
rhetorical. 

Eileen

Eileen

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