Her leaky chat transcription shows that she has a good general idea of what she's doing, but fuzzy on the details. if she had every detail outlined, would she have been able to put this much creativity in the universe?
Erm hero here doesn't mean "has all qualities", it means "represents humanity in the way you wish it would be". Ulysses isn't perfect either, he cheats and lies all the time. His Homerean epithet is "polymetis" ("two-faced"). Harry uses the Unforgivables because with that sort of pressure on him, it would be a wonder if he didn't. When it really matters, in the final duel, he doesn't - isn't that what counts?
Marietta cheated to serve her own goals. She's punished because she's petty, and she's punished in a petty way, there are worse things in life than having an ugly face. Dumbledore served the greater good, what he did was to save everyone in the end, and like it or not, he succeeded. His fault was to succumb to temptation and take the stone. It is a huge mistake, and he gets hugely punished for it, by death no less.
It's a children's story, of course it flirts with stereotype. It does raise all sorts of points - racism, cultural differences, etc - that even we grown-ups do not always get, hence the DD kerfluffle. For complex characters we should point the little darlings to 19th century classics, but they'd get bored in two seconds flat, while HP got them to enjoy reading.
She can't make up her mind whether Snape is a hero or not.
She more likely can't make up her mind on the definition of a hero, but honestly I'd rather she didn't and went on writing than start wanking over theoretical analysis definitions - leave that for literary critics.
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Erm hero here doesn't mean "has all qualities", it means "represents humanity in the way you wish it would be". Ulysses isn't perfect either, he cheats and lies all the time. His Homerean epithet is "polymetis" ("two-faced"). Harry uses the Unforgivables because with that sort of pressure on him, it would be a wonder if he didn't. When it really matters, in the final duel, he doesn't - isn't that what counts?
Marietta cheated to serve her own goals. She's punished because she's petty, and she's punished in a petty way, there are worse things in life than having an ugly face. Dumbledore served the greater good, what he did was to save everyone in the end, and like it or not, he succeeded. His fault was to succumb to temptation and take the stone. It is a huge mistake, and he gets hugely punished for it, by death no less.
It's a children's story, of course it flirts with stereotype. It does raise all sorts of points - racism, cultural differences, etc - that even we grown-ups do not always get, hence the DD kerfluffle. For complex characters we should point the little darlings to 19th century classics, but they'd get bored in two seconds flat, while HP got them to enjoy reading.
She can't make up her mind whether Snape is a hero or not.
She more likely can't make up her mind on the definition of a hero, but honestly I'd rather she didn't and went on writing than start wanking over theoretical analysis definitions - leave that for literary critics.