Heroes in the Harry Potter Series

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 176133

> >>Bart:
> It sounds kind of silly. Yet, currently, we expect our heroes to be 
> perfect.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I don't.  I like my heroes to have flaws they have to struggle 
against.  It's part of the reason I prefer Batman to Superman.

> >>Bart: 
> And now, of course, we have Harry Potter. Harry Potter can't       
> possibly be a hero; he cast Unforgivable Curses; he even cast      
> Crucio just because he lost his temper.

Betsy Hp:
Nah.  Harry Potter isn't a hero, IMO, because he's a suicidal, easily 
manipulated idiot.

> >>Bart:
> Dumbledore isn't a hero either; after all, he manipulated people.

Betsy Hp:
And killed his sister.  And hid quivering away in his tower while 
evil that he'd received early warning about blossomed at his 
school.  "Sure the kid's killed fluffy bunnies and tortured small 
children.  But he's not in my House so screw 'im.  Not my problem."

> >>Bart:
> And certainly not Snape; Snape was a nasty, sarcastic, maybe even   
> sadistic. He can't POSSIBLY be a hero!

Betsy Hp:
Snape was so wrapped up in his own failings he utterly failed the 
children placed under his care.  He was horribly abused, so I cannot 
find it in myself to dislike him to the same extent I dislike Harry 
and co.  But he's more something to be pitied than admired.

> >>Bart:
> <snip>
> They are human, and, being human, they are flawed. They are heroes 
> in spite of these flaws, not because of them.

Betsy Hp:
IMO, by the end of DH, JKR shoved all of her characters into highly 
unrealistic caricatures.  I saw nothing human in them.  And certainly 
nothing heroic.

Betsy Hp