On the other hand (was Re: Disliked Uncle Vernon)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 92469

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> JKR dislikes Uncle Vernon? Can this be true?
> Surely there's a mistake here somewhere.
>


Oh well done, Kneasy!  And JKR may well have Vernon up to 
something dastardly in the next book. But I think she dislikes him 
most because he's not as much fun to write about anymore. 

As the odds shift in Harry's favor, giving Vernon his 
comeuppances can't be as much fun--JKR likes to root for the 
underdog as you say. Plus the other villains offer more 
compensation to  the author for the weariness of imagining  their 
unhealthy  mindset long enough to write about them. 

There's got to be some enjoyment in pretending to be a 
nefarious mastermind like Voldemort or  that ravaged 
seductress Bella, not to mention the various masters of sneaky 
subterfuge, from Quirrell to Fake!Moody, or the ever-slippery 
Lucius Malfoy. Even Draco has his wealth and his badboy 
persona.

 What's Vernon got? A mustache and a bad temper? Not much to 
envy there. He was probably more fun to write about when an 
intact family and a stable middle-class existence was as far 
beyond JKR's reality as the WW is from ours.

Pippin