OOTP rambles
I am going to see POA on Monday.
I was bored out of my mind. I was surfing LiveJournal and going to all the Harry Potter coms. I was reading essays on the wizarding world and who’s wrong and who’s right…
…and it just sort of hit me…HP isn’t a kid’s fantasy world anymore. It isn’t the movie music and the Lego sets, and it isn’t the posters on my wall. It has human beings in it. And with OOTP, that point was really driven home. Hermione’s a good friend and intelligent, but she isn’t nice to Luna and what she did to Marietta could be a whole essay. Sirius is Harry’s godfather and one of the few people who’re always honest with him, but he’s got several hundred truckloads of issues. Dumbledore was always the Wise Mentor person, but he’s been lying to Harry, and locked Sirius up in Grimmauld Place and thought he wouldn’t care. And now it seems everyone’s rethinking their opinions of characters. Remus Lupin is a nice guy, and one of JKR’s favourites…but he didn’t tell Dumbledore about Sirius being an Animagi, did he? Because he was too afraid. So is he a coward now? And come to think of it, Dumbledore taking away the Slytherin’s victory in PS wasn’t very nice at all…it’s been there all along, we just never saw it! And Hagrid always liked dangerous creatures, so we should’ve guessed it’d lead to something bad…and so on.
So that’s it really. The characters are human now, and we’re going to love them and we’re going to hate them and hopefully they’ll come through in the end. I think it’s likely that OOTP will prove to be the darkest book in the series, and in book six (I wish we had a title…) things will start to look up. Well, I hope so. I really hope so.
But it’s incredibly depressing to learn no-one’s all hero.
May 29, 2004 @ 5:33 pm
Hi! Got here via … I am going to see POA on Monday. So am I!! *massively unreasonably excited* Generally, word on this post, really. I love the humanity coming out at last, the feeling that they’re no longer cardboard characters, though I still have my issues with JKR’s Gryffindor favoritism which I still see operating in many ways…but very good points. book six (I wish we had a title…) things will start to look up. I don’t know, really. For me, the impending war isn’t ideal sunny-day conditions, so to speak. Not to depress you further, sorry! ;)
May 30, 2004 @ 12:15 am
So am I!! *massively unreasonably excited* Ooh, cool! :D *is also unreasonably excited* ;) On the Gryffindor favoritism: I am firmly convinced that Hufflepuff will be the House which comes through in the end. :D I don’t know why, but hey, I gotta support my own house. ;) I agree about the war, but I’m hoping for less deaths that could’ve been so easily prevented, and characters showing their good sides more (like Peter and Snape, who still aren’t really redeemed properly). In which case it’d still be depressing…war always is…but not as depressing. ;)