[ SECRET POST #4375 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4375 ⌋

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

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(Madam Secretary)


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[Doctor Who S11E06, "Demons of the Punjab"]


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[Dark on Netflix]


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(Madam Secretary)


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Comments

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[soldatsasha]

Favorites: Harry bc a lot of reasons. Ron bc he's refreshingly regular in a series overflowing with Super Cool Characters. Snape pre-DH because I thought he had the most interesting character/arc of the older generation characters. Krum bc he's just genuinely cool and nice, despite being surrounded by dark wizards and being a major celebrity.

Least Favorites: Molly for the reasons stated above. Dumbledore, for similar reasons. Umbridge and Pettigrew bc no shit. Bellatrix bc I found her really ott and not in an entertaining or believable way. Lupin bc, despite how cool I thought he was when I was younger, I now realize that he was a classic shitty absentee "cool relative" type, who was only around for Harry when it was convenient and who put in less than the bare minimum of effort into their relationship.

Major Mixed Feelings: Hermione. She was one of my faves as a kid, but now I don't like how awful she is to the people around her. She's very much like a mini Molly in how she treats Ron, Harry, Neville, the house-elves, even Ginny and Luna and others. Like bc she's so smart she automatically knows best. It's a very realistic character flaw, but by and large the books don't actually acknowledge it.

It leaves the impression that JKR isn't aware that it's not okay to act like Molly or Hermione. (And wow, I just realized that Ron/Hermione is the 'marrying his mother' trope which is horrible on so many levels.)

Many characters in HP are colored by Harry's perceptions of them. People like Molly and Lupin seem really awesome if you view them through the eyes of an orphan with a horrible abusive family. But I have to wonder how different they and many other characters would seem if you were seeing them from the perspective of someone like Cedric or Tonks, who seem to be more well-adjusted.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[philstar22]

With Snape, I can see that he's an interesting character. He's terrible, but terrible can be interesting. And, if he didn't remind me of some abusive teachers I had so much, I'd probably like him as a character. But as it is, he brings up bad memories, so I just can't do Snape.