I've said it before, but I'm going to repeat it: why would Hermione and Ron have thought that Harry knew what he was doing? Thank you. I had discussions to this effect and still don't understand why it was Harry's fault that Ron and Hermione decided he knew something although he never even hinted that was the case and always told them about his lessons with Dumbles.
...that Hermione usually does. What is she, their house-elf? (g) You know what? When the issue of house-elves arose for the first time back in CoS, my immediate idea was they were a metaphor for house-wives. Seems I was more right than I thought...
Harry stares at Ginny's name in the Marauders Map. Creepy, or what? Fact is, this might have worked IF JKR had established that relationship in an at least somewhat engaging way. Then it would have come off as the romantic trope of the young hero, sitting in wild moor and fen, beneath moonlight, pining for his beloved maiden. Like it is, it comes off like Harry watching Ginny in a petri dish - expressing perfectly (though involuntarily) his way of seeing her "from the outside", with no empathy involved at all.
but Hermione and Ron have the right to make their own decisions. Everything's not about you, Harry. Voldemort is a threat to everyone. Another case of Rowling trying to show Harry's uber developped sense of responsability - he feels responsable even where he really is not! Might have been a good idea if she had shown him to be a little responsable where his own underwear was concerned, then.
Come on, Harry, she's not your mother. Damn right, she is his mother's future sister-in-law!
Imagine if this is the effect Hermione has on Ron as well. What a marriage that will be. (In fact, I'm reminded of Molly and Arthur.) Funny thing is, I've been bothered by Rowling's depiction of "happy-meant-to-be-couples" for some time (like a lot of other people), but I never realized where I knew that from, until it hit me: it's Agatha Christie all over again. Happy couples are NOT equals, but have a parent-child dynamic. Now, whereas with Christie, it isn't difficult to see the connection with her own biography, I'm not sure what's the case with Rowling. Or maybe it's just another instant where she lifted an idea from someone else's work without thinking it through.
Oh my god, a statue of the Potters. Worship them, O Wizarding World. Well, it's Christmas. And here we are, having the post-card idyll of Mary, Joseph and the Infant Harry who's come to save the world. I'm sort of an agnostic myself, but this seems nauseating even to me.
Harry thinks he could have visited the graveyard in Godric's Hollow with Dumbledore... So he could, if it had entered his head for the past six years to ask anyone where they were buried. Seeing there is a touristy memorial there, you'd think everybody in the WW including their kneazel would have known about it. In fact, I wonder why there were no daytrips for Hogwarts students organized.
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Date: 2009-02-23 10:20 am (UTC)I've said it before, but I'm going to repeat it: why would Hermione and Ron have thought that Harry knew what he was doing?
Thank you. I had discussions to this effect and still don't understand why it was Harry's fault that Ron and Hermione decided he knew something although he never even hinted that was the case and always told them about his lessons with Dumbles.
...that Hermione usually does. What is she, their house-elf?
(g) You know what? When the issue of house-elves arose for the first time back in CoS, my immediate idea was they were a metaphor for house-wives. Seems I was more right than I thought...
Harry stares at Ginny's name in the Marauders Map. Creepy, or what?
Fact is, this might have worked IF JKR had established that relationship in an at least somewhat engaging way. Then it would have come off as the romantic trope of the young hero, sitting in wild moor and fen, beneath moonlight, pining for his beloved maiden. Like it is, it comes off like Harry watching Ginny in a petri dish - expressing perfectly (though involuntarily) his way of seeing her "from the outside", with no empathy involved at all.
but Hermione and Ron have the right to make their own decisions. Everything's not about you, Harry. Voldemort is a threat to everyone.
Another case of Rowling trying to show Harry's uber developped sense of responsability - he feels responsable even where he really is not! Might have been a good idea if she had shown him to be a little responsable where his own underwear was concerned, then.
Come on, Harry, she's not your mother.
Damn right, she is his mother's future sister-in-law!
Imagine if this is the effect Hermione has on Ron as well. What a marriage that will be. (In fact, I'm reminded of Molly and Arthur.)
Funny thing is, I've been bothered by Rowling's depiction of "happy-meant-to-be-couples" for some time (like a lot of other people), but I never realized where I knew that from, until it hit me: it's Agatha Christie all over again. Happy couples are NOT equals, but have a parent-child dynamic. Now, whereas with Christie, it isn't difficult to see the connection with her own biography, I'm not sure what's the case with Rowling. Or maybe it's just another instant where she lifted an idea from someone else's work without thinking it through.
Oh my god, a statue of the Potters. Worship them, O Wizarding World.
Well, it's Christmas. And here we are, having the post-card idyll of Mary, Joseph and the Infant Harry who's come to save the world. I'm sort of an agnostic myself, but this seems nauseating even to me.
Harry thinks he could have visited the graveyard in Godric's Hollow with Dumbledore...
So he could, if it had entered his head for the past six years to ask anyone where they were buried. Seeing there is a touristy memorial there, you'd think everybody in the WW including their kneazel would have known about it. In fact, I wonder why there were no daytrips for Hogwarts students organized.