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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (10 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 6 months ago (8 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago (1 children)

He's kind of a dick though...

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months 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...

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