I mean, he has lived all his life with nasty relatives, mistreated, yet he still stays sweet and nice and good.
I'm sorry, but... what? He's really rather nasty to people he dislikes. In PS he laughs at Dudley being scared of the snake at the zoo. He constantly verbally puts the Dursleys down with sarcastic remarks. In OotP he taunts Dudley mercilessly, just because he's feeling frustrated!
He hardly trusts anyone, and isn't very popular - he doesn't have any close friends (although I think that's starting to change), save for Ron and Hermione. And he never opens up even to them.
He's brave, he's nice, he's loyal, everybody likes him except those nasty Slytherins and Snape which is how we know they're bad, because they dislike the hero.
he is brave, but I always wonder if it isn't because he's always fighting for the only thing he's got to lose; his life in the wizarding world.
He's not exactly nice though; he and Ron spent an awful long time not speaking to hermione because she told a teacher about the broomstick Harry got. He then spends a long time not speaking to Ron because og that whole triwizard thing. He spends a lot of time screaming at them in OotP (although some of it they deserved).
Of course he dislikes the Slytherins. To him, they're represented by Draco, and they've been having a very angry argument for five years now. (And that was started by more or less aseries of mistakes, but I won't get into that now, heh.)
And how could he ever had liked Snape? The man attacked him almost the moment he came into the classrom. But correct me if I'm wrong; isn't Snape the very example of a character who is against Voldemort and still not very nice? Harry was extremely wrong about him in PS; he was constantly saving Harry, and Harry was convinced that Snape was the one about to steal the stone.
When his friends get in a fight, he always stays perfectly neutral and doesn't take sides.
Dude, he and one Weasley twin both jumped Draco in OotP. He's completely on Neville's side when Draco steals his remembrall, and is the one wo tries to take it back. Sorry, but I can't remember more instances where his friends were in fights. Which ones were you thinking of?
He always saves the day, never gets in trouble (or at least wiggles out of it), and the headmaster is pretty damn biased toward him.
Oh, certainly Dumbledore is biased. He loves Harry, and it's human. *shrugs* But Harry gets in trouble a lot. He's served many detentions, and lost his house a staggering amount of points (something that once made the entire Gryffidor House stop speaking to him) and made mistakes that has had dire concequences. When he carelessly goes to Hogsmeade in PoA, he feels great remorse when he's asked what he does with what his parents sacrificed for him.
He may go into a teenage angst moment sometimes, but it's always justified--his parents were murdered, his godfather is dead, something equally dramatic.
Not many fans I've talked to seems to thinks that he's justified. To an extent I do, however. In OotP he's not treated very well, and I would have been as angry had I been in his shoes.
You never see him freak out because he got a zit or can't find his left sock.
Well, he's not really the type, now is he? I've never been to upset about those things either. Also, he doesn't seem to have zits, heh.
He worries about his schoolwork every now and then though.
Anyway, I found him refreshingly different from all the cliched hero stereotypes I could think of when I started reading the books, that's why I love him so much.
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I mean, he has lived all his life with nasty relatives, mistreated, yet he still stays sweet and nice and good.
I'm sorry, but... what? He's really rather nasty to people he dislikes. In PS he laughs at Dudley being scared of the snake at the zoo. He constantly verbally puts the Dursleys down with sarcastic remarks. In OotP he taunts Dudley mercilessly, just because he's feeling frustrated!
He hardly trusts anyone, and isn't very popular - he doesn't have any close friends (although I think that's starting to change), save for Ron and Hermione. And he never opens up even to them.
He's brave, he's nice, he's loyal, everybody likes him except those nasty Slytherins and Snape which is how we know they're bad, because they dislike the hero.
he is brave, but I always wonder if it isn't because he's always fighting for the only thing he's got to lose; his life in the wizarding world.
He's not exactly nice though; he and Ron spent an awful long time not speaking to hermione because she told a teacher about the broomstick Harry got. He then spends a long time not speaking to Ron because og that whole triwizard thing. He spends a lot of time screaming at them in OotP (although some of it they deserved).
Of course he dislikes the Slytherins. To him, they're represented by Draco, and they've been having a very angry argument for five years now. (And that was started by more or less aseries of mistakes, but I won't get into that now, heh.)
And how could he ever had liked Snape? The man attacked him almost the moment he came into the classrom. But correct me if I'm wrong; isn't Snape the very example of a character who is against Voldemort and still not very nice? Harry was extremely wrong about him in PS; he was constantly saving Harry, and Harry was convinced that Snape was the one about to steal the stone.
When his friends get in a fight, he always stays perfectly neutral and doesn't take sides.
Dude, he and one Weasley twin both jumped Draco in OotP. He's completely on Neville's side when Draco steals his remembrall, and is the one wo tries to take it back. Sorry, but I can't remember more instances where his friends were in fights. Which ones were you thinking of?
He always saves the day, never gets in trouble (or at least wiggles out of it), and the headmaster is pretty damn biased toward him.
Oh, certainly Dumbledore is biased. He loves Harry, and it's human. *shrugs*
But Harry gets in trouble a lot. He's served many detentions, and lost his house a staggering amount of points (something that once made the entire Gryffidor House stop speaking to him) and made mistakes that has had dire concequences. When he carelessly goes to Hogsmeade in PoA, he feels great remorse when he's asked what he does with what his parents sacrificed for him.
He may go into a teenage angst moment sometimes, but it's always justified--his parents were murdered, his godfather is dead, something equally dramatic.
Not many fans I've talked to seems to thinks that he's justified. To an extent I do, however. In OotP he's not treated very well, and I would have been as angry had I been in his shoes.
You never see him freak out because he got a zit or can't find his left sock.
Well, he's not really the type, now is he? I've never been to upset about those things either. Also, he doesn't seem to have zits, heh.
He worries about his schoolwork every now and then though.
Anyway, I found him refreshingly different from all the cliched hero stereotypes I could think of when I started reading the books, that's why I love him so much.