That was the twist: everyone was a bad guy. From Ron's assholery to Hermione's bitchiness, to Dumbledore's (and McGonagall's) insistent obtuseness, to Snape's Snapery (plus that little thing at the end), to Draco's nasty passive-aggressiveness, to Slug's pandering famewhorishness (was he somehow worse than Lockhart?), to Ginny's manipulativeness, to Tonk's persistent 'woe is me', to Trelawney's whining, to Hagrid's usual ineffectuality, to the entire Weasley clan's...oh, hell, you get the point. I think Rowling's going for the big finish, only eschewing the normal hero's journey for the entirely more contemporaneous "Hell is other people."
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Date: 2005-07-18 02:36 pm (UTC)Fred and George will save the world. No, really.