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Downvote me all you want, but I have to complain. Most bad things in the series would never happen— especially to Harry— if people just talked, explained, or defended themselves like human beings. (self.harrypotter)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by orphiebaby to c/harrypotter

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And it really irks me a lot.

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[–] orphiebaby 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot overstate how much not only does Harry do it every movie, but all the other characters as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Kids hiding bad things is the most real part".

You're watching a story set from the kids point of view. We (the audience) aren't privvy to what the adults/teachers are doing, just like the kids.

And from Harry's perspective, he's got a lot going on, and this is just "another removed teacher". Keep in mind this is a Brit story - ask a Brit what their schooling was like (had some insightful discussions 20 years ago with my older Brit coworkers).

JK was what, 30-40 when she wrote this? So went to school in the 70's.

Lol, I love the "removed" bot. It almost makes things taste better!

[–] rambaroo 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Give me a break man. I was sick for most of my childhood. You know what I did? I told my parents when I was getting sick. I guess that must be a shock to the morons in this thread trying to pretend that kids are utter dumbasses so they don't have to criticize a story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who said kids are dumbasses? Project much?

My experience, as a kid, was that asking adults about things, or trying to tell them anything, was pointless. They were a bunch of thickheaded idiots. This was my experience with practically every teacher too, through college (which was 30+ years ago for me).

We're all flawed, imperfect. Effective ommunication is hard.

Can't say it any better than Marcus Aurelius:

"The substance of [life] is ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption.

[...] To be brief, as a stream, so are all things belonging to the body..

Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage."

His point is that everyone contends with the apparatus of a quite imperfect, continually breaking down physical being, on top of anything going on in our heads, making everything that much more difficult.

Kids don't grok this yet, so can't comprehend what being old like Dumbledore (or hell, even 45) is like.