/Yes, exactly, Harry acts as the righteous judge handing out righteous and deserved punishment....Its a scary mindset and this kind of thinking is shared by religious fundamentalists of all faiths.
I read a book, a couple years ago actually, called the Seven Deadly Virtues and it was warning against that type of thing, being blinded by your own virtue and goodness and led to think that everything you -- or, er, in this case, Harry -- does hence is automatically good. PshhYAH.
I love this chapter. Well, your commentary of it. SO hilarious! I laughed out loud so many times... And I never registered the whole FAT = evil theme JKR has going with the Dursleys&co. But now that you've pointed it out, it's a very obvious (even to the point of being offensive) trend. (Then again, I hate how physicians and the health authorities keep raising the weight range for each height; it almost seems like they're appeasing the overweight people. But anyway!) Sistermagpie directed me here after I asked about Snarkery (shut down?!?) and this site (I, clueless as I was, actually thought they were posts made by her), fyi. And I'm so thrilled that I've found a community with ppl who don't worship JK just because she invented the series/universe/lala! I mean, of course we should be respectful of her for that, but it's not like the books are literary GENIUS; they just happened to hook a lot of kids (not to mention teens & adults).
...Then again, maybe I'm completely misconstruing the views and attitudes of the LJ users here.
The whole...picking each chapter apart deal totally reminds me of MST-ing (and maybe that's the intention?), which I LOVE because vicious snark done all in good fun FEEDS MY SOUL. XD
And thank you for bringing up the craptastic grammar and ALL ABOUT HARRY-NESS! He IS so self-absorbed! Sure, the books are from his POV but still! In GoF, with Seamus and even Dumbledore to an extent. Anyone who doesn't buy his story and who isn't on his side just...doesn't exist to him anymore! And I think he was being pretty insensitive with Cho. (Of course, I don't really understand why he liked her in the first place. And apparently they really *didn't* have anything in common besides Quidditch and Cedric and well, I'm being insensitive myself now by saying this but one of those things is...dead, sooo...yeah.) And I find it very hard to buy the Harry-must-live-with-the-Dursleys thing. Yeah, Petunia, blood, blah blah... but they don't REALLY have any authority over him. And they don't seem like the type of people to physically abuse him, like with violence and beatings. He could've asserted his rebellious side during those first 11 years. But then perhaps the reader wouldn't have been as sympathetic to his plight. Oh whatever. I'm rambling now. And I don't want to give the impression that I don't like Harry because I do. I love Harry, and his life has NOT been great, but he does indeed have oh-so-many flaws. Which, ironically, most ppl in the WW don't seem to notice. Well, Malfoy picks up on the pompous and self-righteous thing...but everyone else (or should I say, everyone who *matters* (i.e., the Gryffindors & their allies)) thinks he's a pompous git himself, so there goes that.
Whoo... The point is! Love the snark! Can't wait to read more!
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Date: 2007-01-31 05:57 am (UTC)I read a book, a couple years ago actually, called the Seven Deadly Virtues and it was warning against that type of thing, being blinded by your own virtue and goodness and led to think that everything you -- or, er, in this case, Harry -- does hence is automatically good. PshhYAH.
I love this chapter. Well, your commentary of it. SO hilarious! I laughed out loud so many times... And I never registered the whole FAT = evil theme JKR has going with the Dursleys&co. But now that you've pointed it out, it's a very obvious (even to the point of being offensive) trend. (Then again, I hate how physicians and the health authorities keep raising the weight range for each height; it almost seems like they're appeasing the overweight people. But anyway!) Sistermagpie directed me here after I asked about Snarkery (shut down?!?) and this site (I, clueless as I was, actually thought they were posts made by her), fyi. And I'm so thrilled that I've found a community with ppl who don't worship JK just because she invented the series/universe/lala! I mean, of course we should be respectful of her for that, but it's not like the books are literary GENIUS; they just happened to hook a lot of kids (not to mention teens & adults).
...Then again, maybe I'm completely misconstruing the views and attitudes of the LJ users here.
The whole...picking each chapter apart deal totally reminds me of MST-ing (and maybe that's the intention?), which I LOVE because vicious snark done all in good fun FEEDS MY SOUL. XD
And thank you for bringing up the craptastic grammar and ALL ABOUT HARRY-NESS! He IS so self-absorbed! Sure, the books are from his POV but still! In GoF, with Seamus and even Dumbledore to an extent. Anyone who doesn't buy his story and who isn't on his side just...doesn't exist to him anymore! And I think he was being pretty insensitive with Cho. (Of course, I don't really understand why he liked her in the first place. And apparently they really *didn't* have anything in common besides Quidditch and Cedric and well, I'm being insensitive myself now by saying this but one of those things is...dead, sooo...yeah.) And I find it very hard to buy the Harry-must-live-with-the-Dursleys thing. Yeah, Petunia, blood, blah blah... but they don't REALLY have any authority over him. And they don't seem like the type of people to physically abuse him, like with violence and beatings. He could've asserted his rebellious side during those first 11 years. But then perhaps the reader wouldn't have been as sympathetic to his plight. Oh whatever. I'm rambling now. And I don't want to give the impression that I don't like Harry because I do. I love Harry, and his life has NOT been great, but he does indeed have oh-so-many flaws. Which, ironically, most ppl in the WW don't seem to notice. Well, Malfoy picks up on the pompous and self-righteous thing...but everyone else (or should I say, everyone who *matters* (i.e., the Gryffindors & their allies)) thinks he's a pompous git himself, so there goes that.
Whoo... The point is! Love the snark! Can't wait to read more!