The Useless Character of Harry Potter

[Zen]

No: HPFGUIDX 69494

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josephine" <josie421 at h...> 
wrote:
> 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.)


And you're posting this becaaaaauuuuuse . . . ?

Zen