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I'm really not getting how "this is a tract on the author's philosophy" and "Harry is a flawed and occasionally very dumb kid (with Mysterious Things that make him sometimes not act eleven)" are incompatible, which seems to be the working assumption here. He can talk the talk and still be poo poo at walking the walk--it's easy to know about blindspots, but that doesn't mean yours go away. This is a crazy common weakness among smart kids! Harry strikes me as kind of deliberately insufferable, and from reading later on, yeah, there's character development, so it's intentional. Right now a lot of this is just "Man, that Yud, so crazy" and "Wow, this is supposed to be a role model?" which is getting kind of repetitive. We know, man. We know. Maybe just mostly stick to what's on the page and ignore the rest of it? It's actually fairly enjoyable if you do that. The author is pretty good at absurdist humor. And I'm gonna defend that one particular freakout about her thinking Harry's parents might be abusive. I mean, it simultaneously a) establishes that Harry's occasional not-eleven moments are totally intentional, b) while also serving as a good example of him still being a stupid kid (that is one hell of a freakout), c) establishes that Harry really does love his parents (important, considering his continual irritation at how adults never take him seriously), and d) illustrates that McGonagall takes the welfare of her students very seriously. That's not bad writercraft. It'd all be better without the Teaching Moments grafted onto it, but this story is okay.
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