One would think that Augusta would get Neville a terrarium for his Escape Artist Toad. LOOOOL but i also laughed at your ron points because he really did not get a character on his own did he... it is kinda sad i also find it amusing that apparently ppl attribute way more chekov's guns to jkr then there are.
Yeah Ron, like so many other characters, is lost potential for the story line :( I might not be Ron's fan, but I could never understand how author can hate her characters so much... Even most grotesque and monstrous characters can be beautiful and interesting to watch, be it from authors perspective or readers.
Heh, recently I watched a certain youtuber who compares movies to books they are based on. While he was fangirling about amount of foreshadowing Jo does in her books, I just sat there and compared my mental notes about the first book. I kind of pity the guy.
/You would think that WW puts here a muggle in-know or a squib to direct more ditzy students, who didn’t listen carefully to explanation given by whoever introduces muggleborns to WW
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The friend from Slytherin should be Draco. It is standard in the "school story" genre that the annoying, stuck-up kid who rubs the protagonist the wrong way at the beginning of the book becomes his good buddy by the end.
In Arsinoe de Blassenville's "The Best Revenge," the four friends are Harry in Hufflepuff, Draco in Slytherin, Hermione in Ravenclaw, and Neville in Gryffindor. Harry's personality had to be changed almost completely to make him a Hufflepuff, but he turned out to be a genuinely likable kid, unlike Harry in canon.
I agree. While I don't have much experience with "school story" genre, there are quite few moments in the first book where it feels like the next natural step for Harry would be befriending Draco and/or Neville. Then comes next scene/chapter and we are back to I-hate-so-much-this-guy/this-guy-is-so-pathetic.
Hmm I might sit down and read "The Best Revenge" after I'm done with my current project :D
"The Best Revenge" (in two parts) is one of my favorite stories. It belongs to the "Snape fetches Harry from the Dursleys" genre, and is one of the best of that type I have come across.
I get this strange feeling that Ron sees pets as possessions and not companions.
I'd thought that Ron was more of a 'country kid' who views animals utilitarianly and that his pet rat was a barn rat. I was wrong, but that was my impression once I found out that the Weasleys kept chickens.
By the way it was MONTH since Dudley gained a tail and only now he is going to hospital for removal.
At this point I thought the story was more one of those ridiculous kids' stories that have completely over-the-top antagonists, more like cartoon villains than actual literary antagonists. The WW does nothing about Dudley's tail, leaving the Dursleys to try and explain it, which would expose the WW, or get the Dursleys stuck in therapy or even an institution. In later books the WW would have sent someone around to take care of things or Dumbledore would have done it, to maintain the Statute of Secrecy.
/ views animals utilitarianly and that his pet rat was a barn rat./
Huh, I never thought about it this way. The idea has merit (as long as you ignore rampant animal abuse in these books), but would 'country kid' keep rat as pet? I would expect cat or dog or in case of WW owl.
/At this point I thought the story was more one of those ridiculous kids' stories/
These books (especially first 3) suffer a lot from upgrading series to YA books.
The Weasleys were presented as being poor so a poor farm kid might possibly keep a rat he'd found in the barn. In that case dogs and cats would be working animals, not pets, and therefore not available to accompany a child to Hogwarts. An owl, too, would be a working animal as they eat mice and other vermin plus, in the WW, they double as mail deliverers.
I agree they suffered from the upgrade, but also from the later books wanting to be more realistic while still leaving in the comically over-the-top elements from those types of children's stories.
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but i also laughed at your ron points because he really did not get a character on his own did he... it is kinda sad
i also find it amusing that apparently ppl attribute way more chekov's guns to jkr then there are.
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I might not be Ron's fan, but I could never understand how author can hate her characters so much... Even most grotesque and monstrous characters can be beautiful and interesting to watch, be it from authors perspective or readers.
Heh, recently I watched a certain youtuber who compares movies to books they are based on. While he was fangirling about amount of foreshadowing Jo does in her books, I just sat there and compared my mental notes about the first book. I kind of pity the guy.
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In Arsinoe de Blassenville's "The Best Revenge," the four friends are Harry in Hufflepuff, Draco in Slytherin, Hermione in Ravenclaw, and Neville in Gryffindor. Harry's personality had to be changed almost completely to make him a Hufflepuff, but he turned out to be a genuinely likable kid, unlike Harry in canon.
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Hmm I might sit down and read "The Best Revenge" after I'm done with my current project :D
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I'd thought that Ron was more of a 'country kid' who views animals utilitarianly and that his pet rat was a barn rat. I was wrong, but that was my impression once I found out that the Weasleys kept chickens.
By the way it was MONTH since Dudley gained a tail and only now he is going to hospital for removal.
At this point I thought the story was more one of those ridiculous kids' stories that have completely over-the-top antagonists, more like cartoon villains than actual literary antagonists. The WW does nothing about Dudley's tail, leaving the Dursleys to try and explain it, which would expose the WW, or get the Dursleys stuck in therapy or even an institution. In later books the WW would have sent someone around to take care of things or Dumbledore would have done it, to maintain the Statute of Secrecy.
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Huh, I never thought about it this way. The idea has merit (as long as you ignore rampant animal abuse in these books), but would 'country kid' keep rat as pet? I would expect cat or dog or in case of WW owl.
/At this point I thought the story was more one of those ridiculous kids' stories/
These books (especially first 3) suffer a lot from upgrading series to YA books.
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I agree they suffered from the upgrade, but also from the later books wanting to be more realistic while still leaving in the comically over-the-top elements from those types of children's stories.
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