The Useless Character of Harry Potter

[Josephine]

No: HPFGUIDX 69485

Harry Potter is boring.
Harry Potter is dull.
Harry Potter never comes around to doing anything.
He isn't particularly talented, not charming, smart, friendly, witty, 
good-looking, funny, or even evil or conspiratory.
In fact, Harry Potter has no function except carrying the whole 
frickin' story upon his ruddy adolescent shoulders (...)

I mean, think about it. Who makes the Potter books worth reading? Not 
Potter. Potter is a whiny, insecure, mouse-gray sort-of hero. Not 
complex, but stupid. He knows nothing. I hate him.
Look, instead, at the people surrounding him: Hermione, who carries 
the burden of being intelligent and best friends with two thick-
headed slugs, Ginny, who matures and turns into someone awfully cool 
and smart in the Phoenix, Snape, who is mysterious and sexy as I 
don't-know-what, Dumbledore, who is too emotional and saint-like to 
be true, Ron, who is humorous and true to real life... Hagrid... Aunt 
Petunia... Black and Lupin...

Harry Potter means nothing. JKR ought to kill him.

End of story.

Josephine
(er, and yes, this was *sort of* sarcastic, but I'm not in the Potter 
fanclub. I like to exaggerate... and I haven't had my coffee yet.)