• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think it was just a contrivance to both make a sport for the books while also allowing the Main Character to automatically be the most important person all the time (like basically everything else in the books).

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      Yeah the truth is that Harry is more or less completely useless at anything other than quidditch in the books. He’s just a symbol that actually talented people rally around

      • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        I mean, Ron isn’t exactly brilliant either. I guess that just leaves the authorial self-insert?