Why to Like and Not Like OoP

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 70805

"iris_ft" wrote:

> 1)	It's part of our lives in such a way that OoP sometimes 
> doesn't fit with OUR version of the story. We expected so much from 
> this fifth book, after all the comments, analyses, theories, 
> fanfictions, drawings, etc, we used to share on the internet; it 
> was quite obvious that some of us would be deceived. Maybe we 
> expected TOO much. And we mustn't forget that this is before 
> everything a story by JKR. So it depends on her own choices, on her 
> own conception of the adventure. We must accept it, wait and see 
> what's going to happen in the forthcoming books. The series doesn't 
> finish with OoP.

I agree. But SHE laid out the rules of her world right from the first 
book : it might happen in a strange world, but the characters are 
normal people. So when those people start acting most abnormally, I 
feel offended. I'm not the one who decided that Harry was a normal 
little boy to start with. If she had told me that he was NOT normal, 
then I would accept whatever he does because I couldn't know how he 
is supposed to react. It's like in the Lord of the Rings : Tolkien 
keeps reminding us that Frodo is a Hobbit, so that when he reacts 
differently than we would have done, we can't say "but that's 
impossible". So what I'm saying is that JKR laid out the rules but 
now she's trying to overrule them by "writer's privilege". I don't 
buy that, sorry.

> 2)	Harry doesn't fit anymore with the comforting image he 
> generally was giving us previously. Now, he's irritating, he is not 
> a good poor little boy anymore, he doesn't behave like a boy scout, 
> he's suffering, he makes the others suffer too: he's disturbing. 
> Some of us don't recognize the icon anymore. Should JKR have 
> written him in a consensual way? I'm not sure it would have been 
> such a good thing. And I'm glad Harry has defects, I'm glad he's 
> sometimes unbearable, I'm glad he's weak. I'm glad he's not what we 
> expected him to be.

I'm sure glad he's FINALLY stopped being a nice little boy scout ! 
But I'm angry that he keeps acting like one each time there's a hole 
in the plot to cover, like "no I won't go and ask DD why he doesn't 
want to talk to me" or "no Sirius I won't turn to you for help so you 
don't get in trouble".

> Amicalement,
> 
> Iris

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