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mayoraaseiHarry Potter is crap.
Or perhaps I should not have begun at [final page - 50 pages] as soon as I lugged home Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - which I, by the way, accidentally borrowed.
Aside from my favourite character dying - thereby rendering the series only 65% as read-worthy as before - its namesake does nothing but bitch and whine and stamp around and...
Okay, generally be a male teenager getting an awkward load of hormones.
Incidentally, the breakdown of the other 65% is - Lupin 35%, Dumbledore 10%, Tonks 8%, Weasley twins terrorising everyone 5%, Hagrid 2%, Mad-Eye Moody 2%, Cedric Diggory 1%, Malfoy getting hexed into a ferret 1%, Harry dying 1%...
And since Lupin and Moody never really appear much, Dumbledore and Diggory are dead, the Weasley twins being only a quarter as amusing, and Malfoy was only ever hexed into a ferret once...
That really only leaves about 4.25% of original read-worthiness for the last volume, and Harry might not even die!!!
Incidentally, this also explains why Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite book, simply because Lupin and Sirius appeared a lot. Okay, soooo Sirius didn't really appear until the end, but he was still there, even though Harry thought he was evil and all, which was even more cool ^0^v
Rowling's not a bad writer. The cheeky analogies are still there, the selfish bureaucratic struggles that get in the way of responding to a disaster.
I just wish Harry wasn't so...accidental. He always just happens to be, someone who's always getting pushed into situations against his will and knowledge, and gets saved - again - without his will or knowledge.
I wish he was more special. Not SPE-SHUL, god-forbid, I just wish the most memorable thing about him isn't his goddamned scar, but something in his personality, something unusual, something that might mark him out as a boy who has had a tumultuous childhood. For a child frequently exposed to bullying and violence and abuse, he is ludicrously bland and normal. That's kind of...well, for lack of a better word, wishful thinking on my part.
I suppose what annoys me most about these canon Mary-Sues is the unwavering love every other character has for them. Harry has all the right in the world to whine and bitch as he likes, but I just wished that one of the other characters would turn around and slap him and tell him what a spoilt brat he's being.
I wish that when Sirius died and Harry had gone storming to Dumbledore, the headmaster hadn't been so patient with him.
I wish Sirius' death had been expressed more poignantly. I wish Harry hadn't just screamed about the unfairness of it all, screamed that Dumbledore didn't understand, screamed that Sirius wasn't at fault...screamed, for all the world like the Shinn Asuka I hate.
I wish that, at least for some split second, Harry had agonised over what he had just lost - his only real family left. Not just the man Sirius, but what Sirius would have represented to a child who grew up an orphan. I also wish that Harry would acknowledge Lupin, if not for the fact that LUPIN GREW UP WITH SIRIUS AND JAMES AND PETER AND HAS NOW LOST ALL OF THEM YOU SELF-CENTERED PRIG, but that Lupin has always quietly stood by Harry even if he wasn't as brash and charismatic as Sirius.
I just wish that Harry being an orphan would make a deeper mark on his character and not just when it's convenient for the plot or the angst.
On a happier note, I am absolutely in love with Moist van Lipwig (pronounced Lipvig, aka Alfred Spangler, amongst at least ten other aliases). If my favouritest Pratchett character wasn't already taken by Vimes...! Going Postal is probably my favourite Pratchett book in a long time. I know, I know, I really love the Watch ones, but the early ones are immature in their execution and the later ones are a little too...sombre. Going Postal has all of the humourous mannerisms and acerbic satire coupled with delightful characters and smooth execution (now I'm sounding like a blurb). I love the cameos made by the Watch, although Vimes, sadly, has only one input to the story and that is a report to Vetinari containing lots of exclamation marks. HAHAHA!!! I want to know what the exclamation marks were over!!!! The Grand Trunk? Reacher Gilt? The dead clacksmen? The Smoking Gnu? Or Moist being a postmaster after he got executed?? XDDD
Although my favourite Pratchett quote ever is still Vimes's straight-faced, "Do I need a pisspot?" A close, uh, equal second is "It makes me so noticeable that no one will suspect I'm trying not to be noticed, so they won't bother to notice me."
Which reminds me quite a lot more than just a bit of Jenny XD
Or perhaps I should not have begun at [final page - 50 pages] as soon as I lugged home Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - which I, by the way, accidentally borrowed.
Aside from my favourite character dying - thereby rendering the series only 65% as read-worthy as before - its namesake does nothing but bitch and whine and stamp around and...
Okay, generally be a male teenager getting an awkward load of hormones.
Incidentally, the breakdown of the other 65% is - Lupin 35%, Dumbledore 10%, Tonks 8%, Weasley twins terrorising everyone 5%, Hagrid 2%, Mad-Eye Moody 2%, Cedric Diggory 1%, Malfoy getting hexed into a ferret 1%, Harry dying 1%...
And since Lupin and Moody never really appear much, Dumbledore and Diggory are dead, the Weasley twins being only a quarter as amusing, and Malfoy was only ever hexed into a ferret once...
That really only leaves about 4.25% of original read-worthiness for the last volume, and Harry might not even die!!!
Incidentally, this also explains why Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite book, simply because Lupin and Sirius appeared a lot. Okay, soooo Sirius didn't really appear until the end, but he was still there, even though Harry thought he was evil and all, which was even more cool ^0^v
Rowling's not a bad writer. The cheeky analogies are still there, the selfish bureaucratic struggles that get in the way of responding to a disaster.
I just wish Harry wasn't so...accidental. He always just happens to be, someone who's always getting pushed into situations against his will and knowledge, and gets saved - again - without his will or knowledge.
I wish he was more special. Not SPE-SHUL, god-forbid, I just wish the most memorable thing about him isn't his goddamned scar, but something in his personality, something unusual, something that might mark him out as a boy who has had a tumultuous childhood. For a child frequently exposed to bullying and violence and abuse, he is ludicrously bland and normal. That's kind of...well, for lack of a better word, wishful thinking on my part.
I suppose what annoys me most about these canon Mary-Sues is the unwavering love every other character has for them. Harry has all the right in the world to whine and bitch as he likes, but I just wished that one of the other characters would turn around and slap him and tell him what a spoilt brat he's being.
I wish that when Sirius died and Harry had gone storming to Dumbledore, the headmaster hadn't been so patient with him.
I wish Sirius' death had been expressed more poignantly. I wish Harry hadn't just screamed about the unfairness of it all, screamed that Dumbledore didn't understand, screamed that Sirius wasn't at fault...screamed, for all the world like the Shinn Asuka I hate.
I wish that, at least for some split second, Harry had agonised over what he had just lost - his only real family left. Not just the man Sirius, but what Sirius would have represented to a child who grew up an orphan. I also wish that Harry would acknowledge Lupin, if not for the fact that LUPIN GREW UP WITH SIRIUS AND JAMES AND PETER AND HAS NOW LOST ALL OF THEM YOU SELF-CENTERED PRIG, but that Lupin has always quietly stood by Harry even if he wasn't as brash and charismatic as Sirius.
I just wish that Harry being an orphan would make a deeper mark on his character and not just when it's convenient for the plot or the angst.
On a happier note, I am absolutely in love with Moist van Lipwig (pronounced Lipvig, aka Alfred Spangler, amongst at least ten other aliases). If my favouritest Pratchett character wasn't already taken by Vimes...! Going Postal is probably my favourite Pratchett book in a long time. I know, I know, I really love the Watch ones, but the early ones are immature in their execution and the later ones are a little too...sombre. Going Postal has all of the humourous mannerisms and acerbic satire coupled with delightful characters and smooth execution (now I'm sounding like a blurb). I love the cameos made by the Watch, although Vimes, sadly, has only one input to the story and that is a report to Vetinari containing lots of exclamation marks. HAHAHA!!! I want to know what the exclamation marks were over!!!! The Grand Trunk? Reacher Gilt? The dead clacksmen? The Smoking Gnu? Or Moist being a postmaster after he got executed?? XDDD
Although my favourite Pratchett quote ever is still Vimes's straight-faced, "Do I need a pisspot?" A close, uh, equal second is "It makes me so noticeable that no one will suspect I'm trying not to be noticed, so they won't bother to notice me."
Which reminds me quite a lot more than just a bit of Jenny XD
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Date: 2007-05-05 12:42 pm (UTC)LOL!!!
Ah yes, as I remember book 3 (wow, you spelt prisoner with a Z XDD) was Snape's best appearance, where he was actually quite nice (protective) towards Harry (or so Dumbledore claimed) even though Harry was a complete poophead.
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Date: 2007-05-05 12:57 pm (UTC)ack, I did too. *feels awful* I don't know what came over for me, and have no excuses. *hangs head in shame*
yay for snape in book 3 :D!