So basically: I agree with all of your characterizations. LIKE WHOA. Especially Mrs. Weasley's. (She is NOT a loving mother in my opinion; but more an opportunist.) I can't tell you how many times I've been involved in flame-wars over the same opinions. Good-fucking-Lord. (People just love her, I guess?) A part of me thinks that JKR should've renamed the series "Ron Weasley and the ____" because of her love-affair with them; which I don't get. But I don't get any of it. They are barely funny. They are barely endearing. They are unkind. They are idiotic. How are they relatable? (Unless someone is an unfunny, unendearing, unkind idiot... Maybe? Emmerson, where are you?) I think Harry could've fulfilled the "everyman" role that Ron did, and do it better. I just... don't get it. I DON'T GET IT.
It's the same for people who hated Harry after OotP, and have always hated Hermione. I DON'T GET IT. These are the Weasley-loving people. I'll just... never get them. (Sorry to repeat myself, but it's true. I'VE TRIED. Really, I have.)
There is so much that could've been done with this family, that it kind of makes me sick to think about all the possibilities that JKR ignored because they were wish-fulfillment characters. In the "Interview of Doom", there's a section where JKR talks about "Ginny's abilities", and how Percy would come back. I use to have this theory that Ginny was an occlumens/legilimens, and that Percy was the red-herring for the REAL traitor in the family (I speculated in an essay that Ginny still had a mind-link with Tom Riddle, but not as a horcrux). I just think... they could've been more sinister, and thus more interesting. A part of me wonders if she just started listening to her fanbase more, and that was part of the problem. (Again, it boggles my mind why so many like them... I DON'T GET IT. I DON'T GET IT. I DON'T - *mind explodes*)
...But I could wench all day about the Weasleys. They are just way too easy.
I think I wrote this in the other comment, but: Do you have your essay up anywhere? I never kept tabs on all the gay in HP, so it'd be nice to see what you came up with. Never noticed the Stonewall thing... which is weird, because I definitely know all about it, and did then. I guess after PoA I gave up on Harry being gay... which doesn't mean he stopped, lol. ;) (Plus, I was gunning for H/Hr, so that probably explained my obliviousness, too. But still - HBP was rather H/D to me, even though I didn't ship it. I remember feeling odd about that.)
JKR is just bullshit, period. For a woman that worked on a series for 15 years, she just couldn't get the job done without phoney romances and deus ex machinas. How disappointing. My theory on her was that the fans were more clever than she was, and she couldn't keep up. It's kind of sad.
(I think about these things too much because I have chronic insomnia. So it goes.)
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Date: 2009-07-29 03:58 am (UTC)It's the same for people who hated Harry after OotP, and have always hated Hermione. I DON'T GET IT. These are the Weasley-loving people. I'll just... never get them. (Sorry to repeat myself, but it's true. I'VE TRIED. Really, I have.)
There is so much that could've been done with this family, that it kind of makes me sick to think about all the possibilities that JKR ignored because they were wish-fulfillment characters. In the "Interview of Doom", there's a section where JKR talks about "Ginny's abilities", and how Percy would come back. I use to have this theory that Ginny was an occlumens/legilimens, and that Percy was the red-herring for the REAL traitor in the family (I speculated in an essay that Ginny still had a mind-link with Tom Riddle, but not as a horcrux). I just think... they could've been more sinister, and thus more interesting. A part of me wonders if she just started listening to her fanbase more, and that was part of the problem. (Again, it boggles my mind why so many like them... I DON'T GET IT. I DON'T GET IT. I DON'T - *mind explodes*)
...But I could wench all day about the Weasleys. They are just way too easy.
I think I wrote this in the other comment, but: Do you have your essay up anywhere? I never kept tabs on all the gay in HP, so it'd be nice to see what you came up with. Never noticed the Stonewall thing... which is weird, because I definitely know all about it, and did then. I guess after PoA I gave up on Harry being gay... which doesn't mean he stopped, lol. ;) (Plus, I was gunning for H/Hr, so that probably explained my obliviousness, too. But still - HBP was rather H/D to me, even though I didn't ship it. I remember feeling odd about that.)
JKR is just bullshit, period. For a woman that worked on a series for 15 years, she just couldn't get the job done without phoney romances and deus ex machinas. How disappointing. My theory on her was that the fans were more clever than she was, and she couldn't keep up. It's kind of sad.
(I think about these things too much because I have chronic insomnia. So it goes.)