Another useful tidbit from another fandom

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality

Most of you have probably heard of Orson Scott Card, noted batshit person and sf author, and his most famous work, Ender's Game. Not unlike HP, Ender's Game relies on the old classic narrative of the Special Child who overcomes enormous odds to destroy a force of evil that is threatening the entire human race.

I was really struck by what Kessel had to say here, and the similarities and differences to the way Harry Potter is presented to us as a hero:

( for great longness )