(I'd meant to reply to this last night, but I decided coherency trumped haste)
Note I did not at any point mention Athos. ;)
Well, think about it, though. Voldemort looks down on people too. Harry's got that sense of superiority, especially over Malfoy and Snape, and that is one of his flaws. Voldemort looks down on just about everyone, and uses people for his ends. I think, in the latest book, Harry begins to show a sneakier side (i.e. manipulating Slughorn), but that will probably be written off as using Voldemort's methods for the ultimate good.
I am, to an extent, playing devil's advocate here. Several of the characters you mentioned are favourites of mine as well (as you know).
Dantès does have a 'dark knight' aura to him. And a God complex, quite literally. No matter what he does, it's justified...at least until about the last eighth of the book. Then things fall apart, as they are wont to do. Really makes me want to renew my attempts to write a screenplay from that novel, simply because everyone else messes it up so horribly.
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Date: 2006-06-16 05:48 pm (UTC)Note I did not at any point mention Athos. ;)
Well, think about it, though. Voldemort looks down on people too. Harry's got that sense of superiority, especially over Malfoy and Snape, and that is one of his flaws. Voldemort looks down on just about everyone, and uses people for his ends. I think, in the latest book, Harry begins to show a sneakier side (i.e. manipulating Slughorn), but that will probably be written off as using Voldemort's methods for the ultimate good.
I am, to an extent, playing devil's advocate here. Several of the characters you mentioned are favourites of mine as well (as you know).
Dantès does have a 'dark knight' aura to him. And a God complex, quite literally. No matter what he does, it's justified...at least until about the last eighth of the book. Then things fall apart, as they are wont to do. Really makes me want to renew my attempts to write a screenplay from that novel, simply because everyone else messes it up so horribly.