[the_old_crowd] Re: The trouble with Harry

[Kat Macfarlane]

Jo wrote:
I never really *got* Harry. Oh I know what he's supposed to be but I never actually connected with him. As the books progressed I sensed(imagined?)that JK was increasingly, even desperately, trying to make me believe in him. Often I found his behaviour inexplicable and his motivations confused.

Gatta now:
I think the trouble with Harry is that he's a Hero (as Jo noted, it's an adventure story, and that applies just as much to the Septology as a whole as it does to the PS/SS).

Gatta's irreverent and serendipitous mind is reminded of Anna Russell's assessment of Siegfried (another Hero): "He's very young, very handsome, very strong, very brave,... very stupid...."

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!

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