And yet, several chapters from now, we’re invited to look down on the Gaunts for living in a filthy shack.
/Harry Potter is now being nicknamed “the Chosen One”. Seriously, Rowling? Come on, pretty much every fantasy story has a “chosen one” somewhere in it./
I agree, why couldn’t Harry have just stayed “The Boy Who Lived?” He’s still important, so why does he need the “Chosen One” moniker when it’s been used so many times already? And here I thought that it was unnecessary in the Star Wars prequels.
/Because I can’t believe that Lilly was the only person in recorded history to lay down her life to save somebody else./
This would make more sense if there was some sort of incantation or ritual involved that Lily knew about when she was offering her life for Harry’s. Unfortunately, all possibility of that was destroyed in DH.
/Gotta make sure the Minister remembers who’s boss in the wizarding world, after all./
And this is supposed to be the same person whom we’re supposed to admire for turning down the offer to become the Minister of Magic. You’ll notice that Tom Riddle never attempted to become the Minister of Magic either, as far as we know, and we’re not supposed to think kindly of him for it because he found power elsewhere. Sort of like Dumbledore…
/I can’t imagine any animal liking him at all./
Well, we’ve seen that Aragog likes Hagrid, not enough to stop himself from trying to eat his friends, but well enough that he apparently didn’t mind Hagrid cooping him up in a box during the Chamber of Secrets debacle.
/Dumbles gets all self-righteous and judgemental about the Dursleys’ treatment of Harry, without bothering to explain why he didn’t feel any need to intervene and stop them./
Nobody does. Everyone in the story just accepts that Harry *has* to live with the Dursleys, no questions asked. Not even the Weasleys make an effort to intervene: to see if they can adopt Harry or get the Dursleys to treat him fairly or find an alternative living arrangement for him.
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Date: 2012-10-27 06:59 pm (UTC)And yet, several chapters from now, we’re invited to look down on the Gaunts for living in a filthy shack.
/Harry Potter is now being nicknamed “the Chosen One”. Seriously, Rowling? Come on, pretty much every fantasy story has a “chosen one” somewhere in it./
I agree, why couldn’t Harry have just stayed “The Boy Who Lived?” He’s still important, so why does he need the “Chosen One” moniker when it’s been used so many times already? And here I thought that it was unnecessary in the Star Wars prequels.
/Because I can’t believe that Lilly was the only person in recorded history to lay down her life to save somebody else./
This would make more sense if there was some sort of incantation or ritual involved that Lily knew about when she was offering her life for Harry’s. Unfortunately, all possibility of that was destroyed in DH.
/Gotta make sure the Minister remembers who’s boss in the wizarding world, after all./
And this is supposed to be the same person whom we’re supposed to admire for turning down the offer to become the Minister of Magic. You’ll notice that Tom Riddle never attempted to become the Minister of Magic either, as far as we know, and we’re not supposed to think kindly of him for it because he found power elsewhere. Sort of like Dumbledore…
/I can’t imagine any animal liking him at all./
Well, we’ve seen that Aragog likes Hagrid, not enough to stop himself from trying to eat his friends, but well enough that he apparently didn’t mind Hagrid cooping him up in a box during the Chamber of Secrets debacle.
/Dumbles gets all self-righteous and judgemental about the Dursleys’ treatment of Harry, without bothering to explain why he didn’t feel any need to intervene and stop them./
Nobody does. Everyone in the story just accepts that Harry *has* to live with the Dursleys, no questions asked. Not even the Weasleys make an effort to intervene: to see if they can adopt Harry or get the Dursleys to treat him fairly or find an alternative living arrangement for him.