[ SECRET POST #2828 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2828 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Wakfu]


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03.
[rupaul's drag race]


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04.
[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]


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[3-2-1 Contact: The Time Team]


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06.
[Anna Popplewell, Reign]


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[The Strain]


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08.
[Justice League]


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09.
[Louisa May Alcott's Little Women]

















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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it because you have a hard time imagining yourself as Harry if he's not white?

Serious question, not sarcasm.

[blitzwing]

...Who would imagine themselves as Harry? You've got a zillion characters it would be more fun to be--animagi, rich kids, brilliant kids, funny kids, professors, spies...

[(Anonymous)]

House elves.

[blitzwing]

...If you're going to open up magical non-humans as an option, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would choose to be dragons, veela, centaurs, or merpeople, rather than a kid who's only exceptional traits are athleticism, inheriting money from his parents being murdered, and being hated and targeted by a bunch of dangerous people.

Frankly, I'd go with veela. You get to be a beautiful, irresistible chick, and turn into a vicious fire-throwing harpy whenever you please.

[(Anonymous)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman

I'm sure you're trying to be humorous, It's a really common trope and not the impossibility you're suggesting.

[blitzwing]

I am familiar with the concept, I'm just not sure it applies to Harry. He does have some exceptional traits, his athleticism and his bravery, and a pretty distinctive past--abused and neglected, orphaned--and he feels like his own character to me, rather than a blank slate we're supposed to project onto. His traumatic past alone is something many people cannot identify with and understand on an emotional level, because they haven't been through it. Of course, there are people who lost their parents at a young age and had to grow up among abusive relatives, but it's not the majority experience.

[(Anonymous)]

Lots and lots of people...

[(Anonymous)]

I understand what you're trying to get at here, but please keep in mind that if nobody felt inclined to imagine themselves as Harry on some level, he would not be the protagonist because that's just how stories work.

[(Anonymous)]

You kidding? I adore Harry. I can imagine many, many readers identify with him and imagine themselves to be him.

[dancing_serpent]

Sometimes it hits just too close to home to imagine anything else, though. The hand-me-downs, verbal/physical abuse by a caretaker, no presents for birthday/Christmas, endless chores, being deprived of things other kids took for granted, being bullied at school...sounds like my childhood. My sister and I had a quiet little freak-out at each other when we started reading the books, and the connection to Harry was instant and not replaceable for both of us.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

No, not at all. I don't really get where that question comes from, tbh.

I don't imagine myself as Harry. And I'd love a similar story where Harry was a poc and that was acknowledged and dealt with and it was part of the story. I don't enjoy seeing a race blindly pasted on him though.