I guess, all human flaws are generally present in everyone, so maybe it's just that 'Siriusness' and 'Hagridness' happen to be flaws I consider especially distasteful, and therefore fear above all to possess?
Yes--I think if you consider yourself very self-aware it means you put value on that and would want to repress any part of you that wasn't. So when you see somebody walking around all not self-aware it drives you crazy, because you're so aware of repressing it in yourself I think that's similar to how I am with Ginny because I try so hard to *not* be the way she is. It's not that I'm always biting my tongue or whatever, it's just that to me the way you should treat other people is the opposite of hers.
I agree too that when the book seems to at least acknowledge this kind of thing you just feel better. Hagrid's role in the last book really really was a relief to me. Even if people are still insisting to me that he's a great teacher and any problems he has are beyond his control I feel better because I see that canon sees him "correctly."
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Yes--I think if you consider yourself very self-aware it means you put value on that and would want to repress any part of you that wasn't. So when you see somebody walking around all not self-aware it drives you crazy, because you're so aware of repressing it in yourself I think that's similar to how I am with Ginny because I try so hard to *not* be the way she is. It's not that I'm always biting my tongue or whatever, it's just that to me the way you should treat other people is the opposite of hers.
I agree too that when the book seems to at least acknowledge this kind of thing you just feel better. Hagrid's role in the last book really really was a relief to me. Even if people are still insisting to me that he's a great teacher and any problems he has are beyond his control I feel better because I see that canon sees him "correctly."