[the_old_crowd] Re: The trouble with Harry

[Mike & Susan Gray]

Pippin:

> Ged is not *the* protagonist of 'The Tombs of Atuan' or 'The Farthest
Shore'
> and he's not the sharpest character in 'A Wizard of Earthsea' so I'm not
sure he
> counts. At various times in the saga, he's virtuous, magically gifted,
intellectually
> brilliant and the main character, but never all of them at once.
> 
> A protagonist who is unquestionably virtuous, magically gifted and
> intellectually brilliant would not be a hero anyway -- he'd be a god! Or a
> Gary Stu. 

Bingo.

I wrote my post before reading yours! Honest!!

Baaaaaa!

Mike Gray (a.k.a. Aberforth's Goat ) 
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"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, 
so that may not have been bravery...." 

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