Ender vs. Harry SPOILERS for Ender's Game (WAS Re: JKR's Intent)

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 178778

zgirnius:

I love Ender too. Yes, in that book, the planet Earth and humanity 
faced an existential thread. Whereas Voldemort was an existential 
threat to the British Wizarding World. He was responsible for wiping 
out at least one prominent Pureblood family, and at the same time was 
instituting policies hat would prevent internarriage with Muggles 
(without which, we are told, the WW cannot survive in the long term). 
So Harry was the hero in a smaller pond. He was still the hero that 
saved the world that his story is about. Was Harry as compassionate, 
or as intelligent, as Ender? Probably not and definitely not, in my 
opinion, though I have defended the position that compassion is a 
trait he has, and which pays off for him in the story, on earlier 
threads.

Tiffany:

I like Ender a lot as well, but humanity as a whole & Earth faced a 
threat, instead of just Hogwarts in the HP books.  Harry was in the 
grand scheme of it all, just a small fish in a big sea with respect 
to the characters in Ender & their plight.  It's true that the 
Muggles are the key to the future survivability of the WW & 
Potterverse.  That appears to be a common thread in both, the fate in 
the future depends on external sources.  Harry didn't have Ender's 
compassion, but Harry appeared to have been a better hero, overall, 
IMO.