Dumbledore: On reflection, what annoyed me so much in Book 5 was the weakness of the eventual revelation. The obvious interpretation of the prophecy was "either you kill Voldemort, or he will kill you" -- moderately disturbing, but hardly something worth keeping from Harry all that time. I was sure that the big reveal would be along the lines of "you have a copy of Voldemort in your head, and might easily turn Eeeeevil". Y'know, something with a solid reason for keeping secret. [Not necessarily a reason I *agree* with, but at least more plausible. Compare "Darth Vader is actually your father".]
[The prophecy is sufficiently vague that Harry *might* yet turn out to have a copy of V in him ("mark him as an equal"), but I don't think Rowling will actually do something that clever.]
Whining: That's actually much worse in Book 5, as I recall. Boy, I'm glad that I've gotten used to having testosterone in my system. It's painful to watch Harry and Ron made stupid by raging hormones. In any case, I think making whiny-Harry sympathetic is a solvable problem, given good scripting and direction. Not *easy*, but do-able.
Mystics: If wizardry-enabled mystics can't do better than real-world cold readers, why bother having them?
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Re: HP
Date: 2005-07-06 06:12 pm (UTC)[The prophecy is sufficiently vague that Harry *might* yet turn out to have a copy of V in him ("mark him as an equal"), but I don't think Rowling will actually do something that clever.]
Whining: That's actually much worse in Book 5, as I recall. Boy, I'm glad that I've gotten used to having testosterone in my system. It's painful to watch Harry and Ron made stupid by raging hormones. In any case, I think making whiny-Harry sympathetic is a solvable problem, given good scripting and direction. Not *easy*, but do-able.
Mystics: If wizardry-enabled mystics can't do better than real-world cold readers, why bother having them?