i've kind of been half watching/half ignoring this thread... it's interesting because i'm of 2 minds about it:
1) in a literary sense, harry potter makes a lousy hero... he doesn't train, he barely tries, he really just kind of stumbles through to the end and wins only because he has the devil's own luck and the bad guys seem to have the brains and reasoning skills of a lobotomized worm...
2) in a real sense, harry potter is a hero because he's the poor schlub on the ground who wins against impossible odds because he's good at thinking on his feet and has a good team (hermione) backing him up... he's everyman in a sucky situation who not only tries to survive, but tries to help out of a sense of decency (largely misplaced, with the wizarding world painted the way it is, but hey...). he's the moron who would rush into the collapsed building to help save people and only manage it because his friend followed him and warned him about which areas looked highly unstable (and would be all over the tv afterwards as the hero of the hour)
but that's my 0.02$ ...
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
1) in a literary sense, harry potter makes a lousy hero... he doesn't train, he barely tries, he really just kind of stumbles through to the end and wins only because he has the devil's own luck and the bad guys seem to have the brains and reasoning skills of a lobotomized worm...
2) in a real sense, harry potter is a hero because he's the poor schlub on the ground who wins against impossible odds because he's good at thinking on his feet and has a good team (hermione) backing him up... he's everyman in a sucky situation who not only tries to survive, but tries to help out of a sense of decency (largely misplaced, with the wizarding world painted the way it is, but hey...). he's the moron who would rush into the collapsed building to help save people and only manage it because his friend followed him and warned him about which areas looked highly unstable (and would be all over the tv afterwards as the hero of the hour)
but that's my 0.02$ ...
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.