MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

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No: HPFGUIDX 68036

Kai said: Ifor one, am glad that JKR has populated her world with so 
many
fascinating characters, many of whom (like James, and Snape, and
Sirius) break the stereotype of nice = Good and mean = evil. 

--kai

And I agree. Having 'goody/baddie' characters with no light adn shade 
just isn't life - H/R/H aren't all good/bad so why shold anyone else 
be?  Ron gets jealous of Harry, H of him 'prefect', which is the 
normal awkward teenager stuff.  And I liked her portrayal of Sirius 
in this book - he's stressed, feels caged in, is moody with people 
and takes it out on Harry.  

And maybe we, and Harry, neded theperfect imae we had of his paretns 
shattered a little because nobody can be that great.  I also agree 
with others that I'm sure, though it seems to be reflecting a real 
event,t he pensieve can be subjective and I'm sure Snape would have 
done annoying and unfair things to jaems in the past.  

Also, I suppose James and Sirius just weren't under the stresses 
Harry is and were apt to be arrogant and bullies - but they did grow 
out of it and com good in the end.  

I'm really looking forward to hearing more of snape's past - just 
what did he do to get Dumbledore's trust?    but, then again, I 
suppose you do need out and out baddies to just hate and look forward 
to their horrible sticky end!  Umbridge, for one, really got to me - 
how annoying was the  'Hem Hem'?...ahhhhhgh!

Ahh - all this Conjecture  over a book!  (sometimes I think I 
shouldn't think about it so much, but really the down feeling I had 
after finishing it, after the story and sunk in, was really quite 
horrible, so discussing it in detail is really a good therapy for our 
new countdown to no. six!)  

she did say she'd started writing it by teh way...
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