What I love about the Harry Potter books is that the heros are very much incompetent and hopeless and that they acknowledge that don't know the anwers until they stumble over them by accident. (Apart from Hermione, but then, I've never liked Hermione.)
Interestingly enough, over on this other forum I've been in a debate with this one guy about the merits (or lack thereof) of the Harry Potter series.
And today, he flat out admitted that one of the reasons that he disliked Harry Potter - both the series, and the character - is that Harry didn't have the stereotypical thing going on where he discovers he that he was secretly ~the most powerful wizard ever~, but remained... ordinary. Apart from being a wizard, of course.
Which baffled me a bit - shouldn't victory coming from an ordinary everyman character be so much more triumphant than that from some Wizarding Phenomenon? Harry is create because of the choices he made, not because some special gift he was born with.
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:09 pm (UTC)Interestingly enough, over on this other forum I've been in a debate with this one guy about the merits (or lack thereof) of the Harry Potter series.
And today, he flat out admitted that one of the reasons that he disliked Harry Potter - both the series, and the character - is that Harry didn't have the stereotypical thing going on where he discovers he that he was secretly ~the most powerful wizard ever~, but remained... ordinary. Apart from being a wizard, of course.
Which baffled me a bit - shouldn't victory coming from an ordinary everyman character be so much more triumphant than that from some Wizarding Phenomenon? Harry is create because of the choices he made, not because some special gift he was born with.