OotP is still my favourite book - provided I ignore the following crap. There was a theory based on the chess game in PS, where Harry's way to defeat the White King was four squares to the right and then three to the left. These were interpreted as the books, where in PS to GoF, Harry largely acts as a good/ right person, whereas in OotP, he starts moving towards the left/ wrong direction. I welcomed that, because I thought it sugarcoating to have an always magically sqeaky clean hero - he HAD to make moral mistakes in order to grow up and learn from them. As much as I detested HBP, it seemed to back this theory up, because whereas in OotP, I could sort of understand Harry's behaviour (permanent headaches, multiple personality disorder, puberty and a regime of Umbridge and Snape and Dumbledore ARE testing), he was downright nasty in HBP with no excuse whatever. But we all know how wrong this theory was...
Very good observation concerning bravery and cowardice!
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Date: 2008-05-17 09:44 am (UTC)OotP is still my favourite book - provided I ignore the following crap. There was a theory based on the chess game in PS, where Harry's way to defeat the White King was four squares to the right and then three to the left. These were interpreted as the books, where in PS to GoF, Harry largely acts as a good/ right person, whereas in OotP, he starts moving towards the left/ wrong direction. I welcomed that, because I thought it sugarcoating to have an always magically sqeaky clean hero - he HAD to make moral mistakes in order to grow up and learn from them. As much as I detested HBP, it seemed to back this theory up, because whereas in OotP, I could sort of understand Harry's behaviour (permanent headaches, multiple personality disorder, puberty and a regime of Umbridge and Snape and Dumbledore ARE testing), he was downright nasty in HBP with no excuse whatever. But we all know how wrong this theory was...
Very good observation concerning bravery and cowardice!