Um, Rowling? It is indeed possible for someone to like a character without thinking of them as an admirable person. To go even further, it's also possible to admire some aspects of a character and despise others.
The morality of these books squicks me out so badly. We're supposed to hate Snape and consider him the scourge of the earth for being mean to his students, yet we're not supposed to hate Sirius, who set up a fellow student to be killed and never felt any remorse for his actions. And fandom laps it up.
I can't call myself a fan of any character in these books (I try to despise Rowling's poor writing for their failings rather than them, though), but I can't help but get up in arms about the way Snape's treated. Being bitter over never receiving justice after a student attempted to get you killed and the authority figure in charge in fact covered up his crime is not a petty schoolboy grudge, fandom!
And Rowling considers Mr. Gallant Crucio to be the perfect boy for girls to go after? Eek.
Racist, bullying spoilt brat that he is, Draco is actually far preferable. When confronted with the reality of war he was horrified by the atrocities being committed- even to the people who he was raised to think of as inferior. He looks to me to stand a far better chance than Harry, or indeed most of the 'heroes', of maturing past his prejudices.
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Re: Snape gets Love, JKR's depressed.
Date: 2010-12-20 12:28 pm (UTC)The morality of these books squicks me out so badly. We're supposed to hate Snape and consider him the scourge of the earth for being mean to his students, yet we're not supposed to hate Sirius, who set up a fellow student to be killed and never felt any remorse for his actions. And fandom laps it up.
I can't call myself a fan of any character in these books (I try to despise Rowling's poor writing for their failings rather than them, though), but I can't help but get up in arms about the way Snape's treated. Being bitter over never receiving justice after a student attempted to get you killed and the authority figure in charge in fact covered up his crime is not a petty schoolboy grudge, fandom!
And Rowling considers Mr. Gallant Crucio to be the perfect boy for girls to go after? Eek.
Racist, bullying spoilt brat that he is, Draco is actually far preferable. When confronted with the reality of war he was horrified by the atrocities being committed- even to the people who he was raised to think of as inferior. He looks to me to stand a far better chance than Harry, or indeed most of the 'heroes', of maturing past his prejudices.