Too "Good" Harry / The resolution of Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 118687


> Lupinlore wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes, that is one of the questions we argue about, isn't it?  
> Chuckle.  It does seem to constitute a basic divide among readers, 
> this question of the adults.  I have to admit, I am of the opposite 
> inclination, and really don't see why people find the adults so 
> fascinating.  I mean, we have, (IMO of course):
> 
> 1) An emotionally crippled, semi-hysterical neurotic who seems to be 
> an adequate spy but other than that is rather a boring and 
> uninteresting Johnny One-Note with a penchant for acting the fool;
> 
> 2) a passive-aggressive werewolf with a severe inferiority complex;
> 
> 3) a teacher who, despite supposed decades of experience, seems 
> totally incapable of dealing with the most understandable of 
> behavior from adolescent boys, much less of communicating adequately 
> with said adolescents, and finally;
> 
> 4) a headmaster who, despite supposedly being the most powerful 
> wizard in the world, lurches from one spectacular failure and 
> misjudgment to another
> 
> I mean they really are a bunch of pathetic magical morons (chuckle, 
> IMO of course).  At the end of OOTP, when the order threatened the 
> Dursleys, I was waiting for Harry to say, "Gee, thanks idiots.  
> You're only about fifteen years too late.  Now, why don't you really 
> impress me and take care of your own Voldemort problems?"
> 

Neri:

Heh. A good post. I want to add that I became acquainted with the HP
fandom only after reading OotP, and until then I have never even
imagined that many people read the HP books for the adult characters.
To me this sounds a bit like reading LOTR for the female characters,
or reading "Pride and Prejudice" for the male characters. Sure one can
do that, but why would one want to? 

In general I don't prefer adult characters over young characters or
the other way around, same as I don't prefer male characters over
female characters, or the other way around. The young characters
(first Harry, then Ron and Hermione) are obviously in the center of
HP. They are the characters that interest JKR the most, so they also
interest me the most, or I wouldn't be a HP fan.

But I must say that since I joined HPfGU I've learned about
Dumbledore, Snape, Sirius, Lupin, Peter and James more than I have
learned in five HP books   ;-) 

Neri