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Just gotta say, I don't appreciate the "women in refrigerators" trope.

ZeroGravitas 13y ago
I read an earlier version of this and felt it had a few very dark moments that, even allowing for it being based off a young adult book, seemed out of place. I've never read the original and so I wondered if this was playing off something in the source material e.g. villains that couldn't really be villainous in an adult way.
- JulianMorrison 13y ago
  The original is full of Dastardly-and-Muttley villains who are evil because it says "evil" on their character sheet; what motivations they have are shallow and their plots are made by Acme.
loup-vaillant 13y ago
It's more than that. (spoiler alert) Generally, only NPCs get to be stuffed into the fridge, so we don't actually feel sorry. This one is different.
- JulianMorrison 13y ago
  Nope, the classic fridging is: build up a female character and put her on a bit of a pedestal for feminine virtues (check, modulo the character's age, but it's unchanged canon so I can't blame EY), make her a love interest for the male lead (check and not canon), and then callously fridge her so as to motivate the male lead and give the antagonist a moral event horizon moment (check).
  - loup-vaillant 13y ago
    You know, I'm more worried about Harry crossing the moral even horizon right now. The antagonist already crossed it in my mind, when he crushed that blue beettle. Love interest not cannon? While in the end, Harry did end up with Ginny, I thought I recalled some hints something was possible with Hermione (from book 4, I think). I may be mistaken, though.
    - JulianMorrison 13y ago
      J.K. Rowling hinted at, and smashed it, pretty much hanging a lampshade off the point that "being a female sidekick of a male lead shouldn't mean automatically becoming his love interest".
  - saraid216 13y ago
    So does that make Lucius a prequel protagonist, given the previous war? (Trying not to spoil.)

I read an earlier version of this and felt it had a few very dark moments that, even allowing for it being based off a young adult book, seemed out of place. I've never read the original and so I wondered if this was playing off something in the source material e.g. villains that couldn't really be villainous in an adult way.

JulianMorrison 13y ago
The original is full of Dastardly-and-Muttley villains who are evil because it says "evil" on their character sheet; what motivations they have are shallow and their plots are made by Acme.

loup-vaillant 13y ago

It's more than that. (spoiler alert) Generally, only NPCs get to be stuffed into the fridge, so we don't actually feel sorry. This one is different.

JulianMorrison 13y ago
Nope, the classic fridging is: build up a female character and put her on a bit of a pedestal for feminine virtues (check, modulo the character's age, but it's unchanged canon so I can't blame EY), make her a love interest for the male lead (check and not canon), and then callously fridge her so as to motivate the male lead and give the antagonist a moral event horizon moment (check).
- loup-vaillant 13y ago
  You know, I'm more worried about Harry crossing the moral even horizon right now. The antagonist already crossed it in my mind, when he crushed that blue beettle. Love interest not cannon? While in the end, Harry did end up with Ginny, I thought I recalled some hints something was possible with Hermione (from book 4, I think). I may be mistaken, though.
  - JulianMorrison 13y ago
    J.K. Rowling hinted at, and smashed it, pretty much hanging a lampshade off the point that "being a female sidekick of a male lead shouldn't mean automatically becoming his love interest".
- saraid216 13y ago
  So does that make Lucius a prequel protagonist, given the previous war? (Trying not to spoil.)