You know, you're totally right. It's funny, because I always am conscious of how Snape and Draco are similar, but I often have a tendency to forget how similar Ron and Draco (and Ron and Snape, but I think more with Draco) are. I notice it sometimes, I think I really noticed it, as you mentioned, when Ron was really mad at Harry in GoF, but it tends to slip my mind.
I also really loved this because I've always been rather fascinated with the characters who aren't special, whether they're good guy sidekicks or antagonists. I think it's probably because I've always kind of been one of those people, that feels like I'm just kind of normal and then looking around at other people who are really talented. And yeah, while I may really love those people, it's quite difficult sometimes not to be bitter about it. *hugs Snape and Ron*
Haha, you know, I was talking about this similar kind of thing with somebody--I don't remember who--about manga and anime. There's a lot of shonen and shojo manga about those 'special' characters, the only person who's phenomenally naturally talented, the only person who can do a certain thing, etc. A lot of series are ostensibly about the 'normal' person thrown into the middle of extraordinary people and circumstances, but quite often it's sort of like how Harry sees himself as being just a normal kid and doesn't notice the ways in which his own god/author given specialness let him do all these things, while in reality they're put in that extraordinary group/circumstance because of some innate specialness that someone perceives in them.
And of course there's often a rival who gets passed over and then proceeds to make the life of said hero/heroine a living hell. I always feel bad for them. Draco reminds me so much of the antagonist girls from Oniisama E and Ace wo Nerae, for example (both girls who get overlooked because of the new girl who's taken in for no apparent reason apart from someone seeing something special in them). LOL!
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I also really loved this because I've always been rather fascinated with the characters who aren't special, whether they're good guy sidekicks or antagonists. I think it's probably because I've always kind of been one of those people, that feels like I'm just kind of normal and then looking around at other people who are really talented. And yeah, while I may really love those people, it's quite difficult sometimes not to be bitter about it. *hugs Snape and Ron*
Haha, you know, I was talking about this similar kind of thing with somebody--I don't remember who--about manga and anime. There's a lot of shonen and shojo manga about those 'special' characters, the only person who's phenomenally naturally talented, the only person who can do a certain thing, etc. A lot of series are ostensibly about the 'normal' person thrown into the middle of extraordinary people and circumstances, but quite often it's sort of like how Harry sees himself as being just a normal kid and doesn't notice the ways in which his own god/author given specialness let him do all these things, while in reality they're put in that extraordinary group/circumstance because of some innate specialness that someone perceives in them.
And of course there's often a rival who gets passed over and then proceeds to make the life of said hero/heroine a living hell. I always feel bad for them. Draco reminds me so much of the antagonist girls from Oniisama E and Ace wo Nerae, for example (both girls who get overlooked because of the new girl who's taken in for no apparent reason apart from someone seeing something special in them). LOL!