Honestly, Harry himself doesn't bother me as a person. It's just that every time somebody talks about how he's especially loving or whatever I'm all...err...what? What does it take to be especially loving in this universe?
I was really disappointed with JKR's explanation of the Neville prophecy--not because I expected or wanted Neville to turn out to be the real boy in the prophecy, but because she went that extra step and said that Dumbledore (and therefore she, imo) believes that had Voldemort marked Neville he'd never have been able to handle it the way Harry did. Which pretty much destroyed the idea that Voldemort made the prophecy happen himself because you're telling me that he coldn't have marked Neville because Neville really wasn't his equal. And I still don't really see where she's coming from there because I've yet to see anything that indicated Neville couldn't have done things in his own way. It seemed like there was just this need to again acknowledge an innate superiority in Harry that seems to put down the other kids unnecessarily.
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Date: 2006-06-18 10:21 pm (UTC)I was really disappointed with JKR's explanation of the Neville prophecy--not because I expected or wanted Neville to turn out to be the real boy in the prophecy, but because she went that extra step and said that Dumbledore (and therefore she, imo) believes that had Voldemort marked Neville he'd never have been able to handle it the way Harry did. Which pretty much destroyed the idea that Voldemort made the prophecy happen himself because you're telling me that he coldn't have marked Neville because Neville really wasn't his equal. And I still don't really see where she's coming from there because I've yet to see anything that indicated Neville couldn't have done things in his own way. It seemed like there was just this need to again acknowledge an innate superiority in Harry that seems to put down the other kids unnecessarily.