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Nov. 26th, 2002
gracious, I'm fractious today
Nov. 26th, 2002 07:24 pmbut my foot, happily, isn't. The doctor said he thinks the separated bone will heal up and I get to go without crutches if I want to (which I don't think I will, because the foot hurts if I do).
I think I'll breathe for a while, see what that's like, and then maybe take a bath.
Wild woman that I am.
I think I'll breathe for a while, see what that's like, and then maybe take a bath.
Wild woman that I am.
(geek) I don't think I agree with some of what Ampersand had to say about Harry Potter (/geek)
What's curious is that the author - while obviously preferring Harry and his pals to the noxious Draco Malfoy - often takes Malfoy's part in the philosophical argument. Draco is a rotter because he's the son of a rotter; so are his sidekicks, for that matter. Not only was Slytherin a heel, but his heir is too. Harry, meanwhile, is turning out just like the blood father he barely ever met. And of course, people are either born with a wizard's talent or they are not; and the most likely way to have that talent is to have wizardly parents.
Clearly, blood will tell.
Nah.
See, here's the thing. Harry has his parents' blood in him, true (although he also has that part of his mother's personal force which she gave him by her death to protect him from what's his name). He has his dad's way with a stag, too.
He also speaks parseltongue, and the hat tried to put him in Slitherin. Harry contains something else. Voldemort/Riddle is every bit as much a part of what makes up Harry as his parents are. He could easily have been the big dog of Slitherin.
He chose not to.
Hagrid's a giant, Neville's the child of sorcerers and Hermione has talent but she's also the hardest working child in school. She's exceptional because of her (thoroughly muggle) brain and her persistence, not because of her native skill with magic.
Any time Harry's won, it's been because he chose, often not the choice his friends and supporters would have him make - and as Dumbledore pointed out, it's far harder to stand against your friends. (Remind me some time to tell you my theories about the Harry/Snape parallel).
Neither Mark or Kieran mentions the most obvious legacy of Harry's upbringing - Harry's near-inability to trust parental figures.
But he does trust Dumbledore. He trusts him enough that the phoenix came to him. He just doesn't want to risk losing another parent.
Unless she's a far clumsier writer than I've noticed, I think all of that was written in on purpose.
What's curious is that the author - while obviously preferring Harry and his pals to the noxious Draco Malfoy - often takes Malfoy's part in the philosophical argument. Draco is a rotter because he's the son of a rotter; so are his sidekicks, for that matter. Not only was Slytherin a heel, but his heir is too. Harry, meanwhile, is turning out just like the blood father he barely ever met. And of course, people are either born with a wizard's talent or they are not; and the most likely way to have that talent is to have wizardly parents.
Clearly, blood will tell.
Nah.
See, here's the thing. Harry has his parents' blood in him, true (although he also has that part of his mother's personal force which she gave him by her death to protect him from what's his name). He has his dad's way with a stag, too.
He also speaks parseltongue, and the hat tried to put him in Slitherin. Harry contains something else. Voldemort/Riddle is every bit as much a part of what makes up Harry as his parents are. He could easily have been the big dog of Slitherin.
He chose not to.
Hagrid's a giant, Neville's the child of sorcerers and Hermione has talent but she's also the hardest working child in school. She's exceptional because of her (thoroughly muggle) brain and her persistence, not because of her native skill with magic.
Any time Harry's won, it's been because he chose, often not the choice his friends and supporters would have him make - and as Dumbledore pointed out, it's far harder to stand against your friends. (Remind me some time to tell you my theories about the Harry/Snape parallel).
Neither Mark or Kieran mentions the most obvious legacy of Harry's upbringing - Harry's near-inability to trust parental figures.
But he does trust Dumbledore. He trusts him enough that the phoenix came to him. He just doesn't want to risk losing another parent.
Unless she's a far clumsier writer than I've noticed, I think all of that was written in on purpose.