To thing Harry Potter is an unlikeable character?

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I’ve just finished re-reading the books for the x amount of times, and each time I read it, I dislike Harry more and more.

I love the book series. It’s a good a series but I honestly think Harry is just an awful character

I don't agree - they all save each other from time to time.

Hermione: brains.
Ron: loyalty.
Harry: character.

Totally disagree. He's brave, tenacious, a good friend, always tries to do the right thing, and is willing to literally sacrifice his life for the good of the rest of humanity. He's only rude to people who deserve being rude to. Who does he fail to take advice from? He was never going to be a favourite character, because being the protagonist he's the character through whose eyes we see everyone and everything else. Other characters are more fun, because he's got a purpose.

Funny cos it’s true. 😂

I would have hated going to school with him. I'd totally be up for one of those potter stinks badges. He ruins every single year and everything is about him and the stupid prophecy. He's constantly bringing danger to the school and has a creepy relationship with half the teachers. The house point debacle in the first book would have sealed it for me. Poor Slytherins!

Yeah he’s a severely traumatised teenager and I think he does really well all things considering!
Both his parents murdered in front of him.
Raised by people who dislike, bully and mistreat him.
Has the constant dark thoughts and nightmares linked to being a horcrux.
Sees his Godfather and Dumbledore be murdered in front of him.
Jeez … and he still attends school, is a decent friend, fairly polite to adults… weirdly good. Plus, if this was real life he would be in years of therapy, but no he has to go and save the entire world .

This.

It is a book written for children/teenagers.

Where adults behave poorly/in unrealistic ways so that naughty children/teenagers can be the heroes.

Enjoy it for what it is.

I love the books...but:

It always strikes me how disappointingly mediocre Harry and his group of friends are, compared to previous generations. With the exception of Fred and George (and possibly Hermione with the Marietta curse - although perhaps she got it from a book?) where's the innovation? They don't invent spells or push the boundaries of magic. At best, some of them are precocious and master spells a few years early.

At 18 they know surprisingly little magic compared to the adults in their world

I love Neville in the later films. He goes from the “why is it always me?” shy kid, to being rude to death eaters and then shouting at Voldermort he’s a wrong-un!

Me too I really liked the books but never really warmed up to Harry Potter as a character.

He's a dick but not as bad as Frodo from LOTR. What a wet blanket.

Oh my days I HATE Frodo, why is he such a weak feeble character always whimpering and crying like a baby..... he angers me m, what a shot hero

*shit

He is not a tosser. He's just not a transphobic arsehat.

Neither is JK Rowling

No he is just a femphobic, misogynistic bigot instead who thinks women shouldn't have human rights.

He is a tosser, and a shit actor to boot!

See I disagree. I never read the books and only watched the films and thought he was horrible. Now I am reading the books due to my obsessed DD and I feel so sorry for Harry. He is traumatised and after he was tortured and then witnessed a murder he is isolated and ignored by everyone. He is also only famous because he survived being murdered. Something he struggles with and admits during the books.

Well, he did spend the first 10 - 11 years of his life living with the Dursley’s… imagine being perfect after such a soul-draining start?

I felt the girls in Enid Blyton had flaws. George of Famous Five was always getting into "scrapes." I felt the lead boy was usually presented as perfect, though: man of the house, the automatic leader, etc.

Something I always loved about him is that, apart from the obvious, he is pretty normal and unremarkable. He isn't the most brilliant student in all classes, or the best behaved, and when he doesn't know what to do in Potions, he looks around to copy what others are doing. He is brave and has a talent for Defence Against the Dark Arts, but that's necessary for his arc and totally plausible, given who his parents are.

Remember that the Sorting Hat considered putting him in Slytherin because his disregard for rules, Voldemort's soul piece in him etc meant he really could have done well there if he had wanted to. The point is, he didn't want to.

He's properly flawed and realistic. That's one of JKR's themes in her work....the fact that people are complicated and flawed and not always likeable all the time and make real, proper mistakes. I never get why people complain about having reservations about Dumbledore as they get older. That was the point! He truly wasn't perfect!

It's possible to be a good Slytherin, but hard - Harry wouldn't have been one of them.