"Without
Hermione, The Boy Who Lived would be dead as shit." I’ll have to save this for my daughter. I think Hermione is her favorite character of
all time. Harry basically bungles his
way through and Hermione saves his ass over and over using his orphaned crutch
as an excuse for having it hard boo hoo.
My favorite characters in the whole series are Severus Snape and Luna
Lovegood.
Snape; the
dude is misunderstood, gets treated like crap by a standard of male-beauty he
just doesn’t fit into, falls into a spiritual connection with the love of his
life he never gets over as she falls for some braggart fraternity boy asshole
who she ends up marrying. Then Snape has
to watch over the orphan keeping that dude’s progeny alive undercover where
everybody hates him. He does this all
for the connection he had with a dead woman he morns in his heart. Maybe it is not healthy or wise, but it is
heroic, poetic, and beautiful and the most god damn interesting dynamic of the
whole series.
Luna should
have a much bigger role. Luna is in tune
with the universe, probably listens to cool music, and is a badass who does her
own thing, a punk rock beauty that probably grew up to have awesome tattoos and
wisdom beyond found in simply paying attention to what other people don’t. Luna is a quiet introvert who doesn’t get
caught up in other people’s crap, but stays true to her unique self. Hermione is cool, she’s clever, and studious,
but she really isn’t the rule breaker Luna is.
Give me Luna. Luna and Severus
that’s where it’s at.
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