book_icons just got a nice crop of OotP icons...

[conuly]

Not the best ever, but MUCH better than movie icons. And it occured to me that there's a huge flaw (or ten) in the Harry Potter books, in this case Petunia. She has the potential to be a truly interesting character (much like the twins, who are barely one person, let alone two, and who could've been SO MUCH BETTER WRITTEN) and instead she's really just a cariacature of the "wicked stepmother" person. But she's not really that bad... is she? Her good deeds (taking in Harry, not kicking him out after the incident with the dementors) aren't ever explained.

Honestly, there's so much I want to know about the woman. Why does she hate her sister? I know, her parents favored Lily, but did they, or did she just think they did? And what ever happened to Harry's grandparents anyway? Did she ever get along with Lily, or was it a rivalry from the beginning? Did Lily dislike her as well? Seriously, she can't think of one good thing about her only sister?

Of course, the books aren't about her, but that's not the point. I still wanna know what happened before! No worries, though, the way things are going I'm sure there'll be a couple of prequels, maybe a sequel or two. Can't imagine they'll actually answer my questions, though.

Comments

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

I agree! It always annoys me when a book has a totally unrealistic teenage character in it, no matter what the target audience is.. and in this case, even though the target audience is supposedly children (I still agree with this, but whatever) the character still develops different personality traits that a normal person would.