Harry's Characterization (was:Satisfaction of the story to date)

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 163394

I see HBP as the novel in which Harry gets to be a teenager.  In it he takes
classes, plays sports, gets a girlfriend, hangs out with friends--all the things
that a normal sixteen-year-old is supposed to do.  Until the end, there are no
great quests or adventures, no epic battles, nothing on those lines.  It gives
us a glimpse of what life for an adolescent wizard is supposed to be like. Think
of it like an interlude, an entre-acte, a breather.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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