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Harry even caught it in his mouth once (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it was just a contrivance to both make a sport for the books while also allowing the Main Character to automatically be the most important person all the time (like basically everything else in the books).

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah the truth is that Harry is more or less completely useless at anything other than quidditch in the books. He's just a symbol that actually talented people rally around

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Functionally, he's good at being reliably moral. See: the mirror of erised, the second GoF task, going willingly to his death.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reliably moral by traditional wizarding standards*. Hermione is more reliably moral by standards external to the wizarding world.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hermione blackmailed a journalist and kept her in a jar for several weeks. The following year she cursed a fellow student and left them permanently disfigured. I'm not sure that I would consider her more reliably moral... a good person overall, but with flaws.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Idk, just because she doesn't turn into a human welcome mat doesn't make her immoral. And Rita is as much a journalist as anyone on Fox News is, which is to say, not at all. Hermione recognized that nobody would do anything about Rita spreading her harmful bullshit and took direct, decisive action.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's kind of a dick though...

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Fame went to his head for a bit there, then he got pissed that everyone had opinions about him....kinda like a certain author I know of...

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading Enders Game after reading the Harry Potter series felt like those were two opposite ends of the spectrum.

Harry was special because fate made him special and all things revolved around him regardless of his actions.

Ender was special because the author said he was the smartest kid in the room and all things he did worked because if it didn’t work, then he wouldn’t be the smartest.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

With both written by hateful, vitriolic turds.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago

Man, fuck that main character. He owned a slave and became a cop.