Chapter Thirty-Two -- The Elder Wand

[gehayi]

Today's spork is by quinby.

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Chapter Thirty-Two -- The Elder Wand

Comments

[smurasaki]

Pacing, she must learn pacing.

And has Harry managed to do anything in this book. Anything at all? Anywhere?
*sob*
Couldn't we have had Luna and Neville as the heroes?

[minkhollow]

He's angsted a lot and walked into traps!
...Wait. You meant something productive, didn't you? I'm sorry, but your hero is in another book.

[smurasaki]

*sigh*
Harry may win the "most useless hero" award. If he even qualifies as a hero by now. Old Dumbles really did turn him into a sheep for the slaughter, didn't he.

[gehayi]

I think that he lost all right to be called a hero when he Crucio'd Amycus. He'd been annoyingly passive up till then, but...the way I figure it, a grey character or an anti-hero could develop noble qualities or feel remorse for his/her actions and become heroic. By the same token, if the traditional heroic character does something vicious or wrong that the villains have been condemned for doing, does it with all the enthusiasm of the bad guys and feels no remorse, regret, horror, etc. afterwards

[berseker]

passivity, lack of thought and casual cruelty are heroic traits.

And this runs in the whole series. Why, you have just described Lily and the Marauders, and by now I don´t even have to mention our dear old Dumbledore.

Passivity, lack of thought, and casual cruelty as heroic traits

[terri_testing]

Why, are you a SLYTHERIN at heart??? SHAME!!! Any Gryffindor would instantly recognize these as the heart of heroism.

[solar_type_star]

Pacing and tone. Two chapters ago it was Looney Tunes, with the Snape-shaped hole in the window, then we have some epic battle, and now Harry has found Snape's Easter Egg by pushing Triangle-Circle-R1-Up-Up.