The problem with keeping a strict demographic is... ignoring the fact that there are different concentrations of people in different partsof the country. So on and so forth.
Sometimes it makes me wonder - how she would have done if Harry was Harriet. How would she have been recieved. Somehow I doubt Harriet would have been quite as well recieved as Harry. I know someone once pointed that out - the whole expectations of male and female main-characters are different even if the things they do and the motivations are exactly the same.
Tonks and McGonagall and Lily - such potential for strong characters. And Tonks and Lily were reduced to being mothers and wives. Lily was hinted at being an auror , wasn't she? Instead she's remembered for being mother of Harry, lover of Snape.
FUN TIMES.
Thing is, I like Harry if handled right. Maya does him beautifully, fleshes out his angst and emo and his humour (and contrasts him with sparkly, bright, too-sharp Draco). There's other fics I've read too, with Harry and Draco in Hufflepuff - or time-travelling or other sorts of things. Hell, some Harry/Snape. (Though I have a fondness for people Snape's own age, mainly because the power dynamics between Snape and someone much younger is just... squicky. I kind of like Snape with Bill Weasley, or Charlie. :P as well as the marauders et al). But JKR didn't deal with him well enough for me to want to read past book 4.
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Date: 2009-10-25 01:28 am (UTC)Sometimes it makes me wonder - how she would have done if Harry was Harriet. How would she have been recieved. Somehow I doubt Harriet would have been quite as well recieved as Harry. I know someone once pointed that out - the whole expectations of male and female main-characters are different even if the things they do and the motivations are exactly the same.
Tonks and McGonagall and Lily - such potential for strong characters. And Tonks and Lily were reduced to being mothers and wives. Lily was hinted at being an auror , wasn't she? Instead she's remembered for being mother of Harry, lover of Snape.
FUN TIMES.
Thing is, I like Harry if handled right. Maya does him beautifully, fleshes out his angst and emo and his humour (and contrasts him with sparkly, bright, too-sharp Draco). There's other fics I've read too, with Harry and Draco in Hufflepuff - or time-travelling or other sorts of things. Hell, some Harry/Snape. (Though I have a fondness for people Snape's own age, mainly because the power dynamics between Snape and someone much younger is just... squicky. I kind of like Snape with Bill Weasley, or Charlie. :P as well as the marauders et al). But JKR didn't deal with him well enough for me to want to read past book 4.