Both have flaws, but the combo of flaws and the way things work out for one character makes them hate them, and in the other they love them
Oh, I agree. I was being flippant in my comment above. Harry can be exasperating, and it doesn't seem fair that things work out for him the way they do. But for me, this is what makes him as a character and the novels so true to life. Because coincidence and luck and favouritism (if Dumbledore's grooming of Harry as the saviour of the wizarding world really is favouritism) play a vital role in human enterprises of all kind. I'm not sure whether I like Harry as a person, but I like him as a character - only since OotP, though, where he became such an angry and oh so misunderstood teenager. He suddenly seemed real then.
His specialness has been thrust upon him, and in many ways, he is special, because Voldemort and Dumbledore have made him so and have "marketed" him as special.
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Date: 2011-01-17 11:39 am (UTC)Oh, I agree. I was being flippant in my comment above. Harry can be exasperating, and it doesn't seem fair that things work out for him the way they do. But for me, this is what makes him as a character and the novels so true to life. Because coincidence and luck and favouritism (if Dumbledore's grooming of Harry as the saviour of the wizarding world really is favouritism) play a vital role in human enterprises of all kind. I'm not sure whether I like Harry as a person, but I like him as a character - only since OotP, though, where he became such an angry and oh so misunderstood teenager. He suddenly seemed real then.
His specialness has been thrust upon him, and in many ways, he is special, because Voldemort and Dumbledore have made him so and have "marketed" him as special.