I did read somewhere (fanfic, perhaps?) that Harry's behavior in OotP was textbook PTSD, even though it got annoying to read. Makes sense after the events of the Third Task in GoF (btw, I'm really excited to see how they do the three tasks in the movie version!).
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Mar 08, 2005 1:33:32 pm PST #7191 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Betsy HP - Mar 08, 2005 1:35:05 pm PST #7192 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yeah, well, your typical fictional character spends much less time sleeping and defecating than your typical real human, and I for one am good with that. Too much realism: boring.
Jessica - Mar 08, 2005 1:35:32 pm PST #7193 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
See also, S6 Buffy.
Anne W. - Mar 08, 2005 1:36:28 pm PST #7194 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm honestly trying to remember what exactly happened in OotP other than Sirius cacking it. The whole Umbridge thing was so unpleasant that I've blocked most of it out of my consciousness.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2005 1:36:46 pm PST #7195 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You mean my favourite (character version, not season)?
Lyra Jane - Mar 08, 2005 1:36:59 pm PST #7196 of 10002
Up with the sun
My money's on Hagrid. He's half-giant, after all, so that would fit the description rather nicely.
Please, god, no.
Or, only if being "half-blood prince" means Hagrid shuts up and goes away for the rest of the series. That would be a happy ending as far as I'm concerned.
</gratuitous Hagrid hate.>
erikaj - Mar 08, 2005 1:37:09 pm PST #7197 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
In my next life, I wouldn't mind being fictional because of that stuff, Betsy.
Connie Neil - Mar 08, 2005 1:42:02 pm PST #7198 of 10002
brillig
I'm still hoping Draco turns out to be Harry's half-brother, the result of James Potter fooling around with Narcissa. Wouldn't make him half-blood, but would make him a bit more three-dimensional.
My serious Knuts, though, are on Ron going bad. And the twins need to catch a matched set of curses, preferably fatal.
Kathy A - Mar 08, 2005 2:54:49 pm PST #7199 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Really? I love the twins (in small doses, which is how JKR uses them). And I think that Ron had his "going bad" moment back in GoF, where he got in that month-long snit over Harry being in the tournament. Unless, of course, she uses those brains he got mixed up with at the end of OotP as a device to make him wonky in the head. That'd be cool.
sj - Mar 08, 2005 7:52:20 pm PST #7200 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm currently re-reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I suddenly realized that in my head, the character of Hunter is ita.
When I read it a couple years ago, she was Gina Torres, but ita would be an excellent Hunter.