Character Development

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 179136

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Theo Nott, Florence, Agnes...just a few of JKR's many named but 
unknown 
> characters. There are so many who spend some time with Harry or 
near 
> Harry, then move on. JKR told us a little about Theo, and something 
of 
> Dean Thomas's father. Did that information peak your curiosity? Did 
> something in canon make you think a character was going to play a 
role 
> later, but the character did not? For example, did knowing (or not 
> knowing) about Dean's father affect how you felt during his scenes? 
> 
> How did canon or interviews color your impressions of characters? 
Did 
> anyone surprise you, speak to you, grab your imagination? What do 
you 
> think about the way JKR wrote characters? Did she "play fair"?
> 
> 
> Potioncat hoping this isn't too much like an earlier post--but has 
> forgotten that one anyway.
>


Alla:

I take it we are restricting ourselves to minor characters here or at 
least those that started as minor?

I will tell you one thing. I can and was intrigued by some of the 
minor characters or the characters that started as minor, but for 
such thing to happen the character has to really do something, or at 
least I have to hear from somebody else that character did something.

I do not get intrigued if character's name mentioned and that's it, I 
usually could care less about "name only" characters.

So, the information on the website about Theo peeked my curiosity 
indeed, I wanted to meet him and get to know him. I was especially 
intrigued that JKR seems to think of him as loner, and while I was 
never particularly attached to the "good Slytherin" idea, I certainly 
would not mind him to be one.

I would have been especially pleased if he had been shown as someone 
who can resist Draco and his goons on the daily basis. Not because he 
likes Harry, but simply because he cannot stand Draco, etc. 

I was also intrigued by Regulus from the first time Sirius mentions 
him, when we had no idea yet about RAB thing, etc. I was intrigued by 
him for very simple reason that beside Sirius' annoyance I absolutely 
heard affection and regret. So, I was wondering about what kind 
of "person" Regulus was.

Funnily, when JKR mentioned Sirius in book first it sooo went off my 
radar and I was not curious much to find out more about him.

Dean Thomas' story actually did not interest me much for some reason.

Whom else I was intrigued about?

After I read Elkins' Crouch novella long time ago, I did realize that 
I should have been intrigued about them, so much depth she discovered 
in those characters, but I don't know, I just was not much.

LOVE your threads as always.

Alla.