Other fandoms in comparison - What Harry Potter got Wrong, they're getting right?

[mistress_kizuna]

Okay, HP can't be the only fandom we occupy, and it's been a while since anything's been posted, so I decided to revv up a new discussion.

Now I'll admit, there are still things I love about HP and the fandom (those genuinely good parts of the books I can't let go of, really good people to chat up with, non-canon fanfiction, and a few other things

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[les_lenne]

For the baby thing: Look at "Wicked". Elphaba is a strange baby, too. And later the other people say she is wicked, but is she? The reader knows it's not so easy.
Elphie is everything Voldemort is so not. She's interesting and actually has a personality. Which is very important for a villain (although she isn't the real villain in "Wicked"). Also, she did do some pretty bad things but it's not like with Harry who is praised for doin' it wrong. :|
Most of the characters in Harry Potter couldn't be scared. I think that's why you can't love them. If I would have been sent to death by my own parents' ghosts? Jesus! Harry's reaction is so far from anything a human would have done. Yeah, so that teacher you've always hated tells you to go dying for the greater good. Then some ghosts pop up (one of them that just died, how amusing as well) and tell you the same. Of course you'll be immediately okay with dying.
A hero who wants to die so easily, absolutely not searching for another way to kill his enemy ... that's pathetic.
Maybe the heroes in JRPGs are somewhat too stupid, but at least they don't go "okay, will do that if you say so" without even thinking about it for a second!