Which characters are dynamic?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 141800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:

Nora said:
 
> I don't see Snape being depicted as making these sorts of gradual 
> changes and adjustments--but then again, I remember the image of 
> Harry separating him and Sirius in OotP, so I wouldn't put him on 
an 
> elevated plane of control there, either.  Particularly his 
> relationship to Harry, which is the most important one (as 
everyone 
> in the books exists in a literary relationship to Harry), is 
rather 
> one-note.  If you think he's being sincere about his general 
> attitudes.  Well, at least after next book the "just you wait" 
> argument no longer obtains...
> 
> -Nora sez: a character who shifts is more complex than one who 
does 
> not, generally
>


Now Lupinlore:

Yes, a very good point, Nora.  As it is Harry's story, it is in the 
relationships with Harry (or that Harry notices intimately) that 
change, and the lack thereof, are played out.  And therefore it is 
within the context of those relationships that characters in the 
Potterverse either are, or are not, dynamic.  Not fair to the 
characters, I guess, but that's what you get when you are in 
somebody else's story.

I also agree that a dynamic character is more complex, generally, 
than a static one.  But the dynamic/complex distinction is useful, I 
suppose.


Betsy said:

So, until Snape suddenly treats Harry nicely he's not a complex
character for you?


Now Lupinlore:

Yep, pretty much.  In that complexity in this discussion relates to 
character dynamic, meaning character change, and in that this is 
Harry's story and the important relationships are the one's with 
Harry or immediately touching on Harry, yep, you've got it exactly.  
An apology will also be required of course, if only because it would 
cost Sevvie so much to come up with it.



Lupinlore