Harry's character development: Static or Dynamic? Was: Saving Private Draco

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 183714


> Carol responds:
 
> But is Harry "static" (unchanged by the events around him) or 
dynamic
> (changed in some fundamental and lasting way by those events)?


Potioncat:
I do so enjoy this type of thread.

Questions:
1. Is static and dynamic simply types, without value? 

2. Is there some literary rule or tradition that a character should 
be one or the other? 

3. What are some examples of other static and dynamic characters?

4. Sirius Black went from a reckless, wild youth to a marose, bitter 
man. Is that dynamic?

Potioncat, who only threw in the Sirius question to keep the post 
canon based.