I wonder how much Harry Potter had to do with the trend, cause superficially, that’s Harry’s story. It’s a good implementation of the trope, though, because it’s subverted rather quickly, and by the end of the seeies it’s a core theme: Everyone WANTS to treat him like he’s inherently special, and he’s really not. It’s his CHARACTER that makes him special.
Dumbledore used to be aligned with a dark wizard who was his lover.
It’s revealed in the books that in school, James Potter and his friends were massive assholes who bullied Snape. Snape was pushed towards evil, but when when saw the consequences of that evil, he changed his ways and became a hero, while one of Potter’s best friends (Peter) turned out to be a cowardly villain. And then Peter ended up dying to save Harry later.
Malfoy’s family were racists and loved the idea of Voldemort returning and them being on the inner circle. But the reality of that was terrible, and in the end, they just wanted to escape.
People are born this way in the Harry Potter universe and nobody ever changes.
With the caveat that anybody ‘good’ who is doing evil is just under suchhorrible circumstances! (pearl clutching shrieking) They aren’t bad, they just have horrible backstories. Poor snapeypoo was being bullied for half muggleness, and the girl he loved was so mean to him!
I wonder how much Harry Potter had to do with the trend, cause superficially, that’s Harry’s story. It’s a good implementation of the trope, though, because it’s subverted rather quickly, and by the end of the seeies it’s a core theme: Everyone WANTS to treat him like he’s inherently special, and he’s really not. It’s his CHARACTER that makes him special.
Yes one of the main themes of Harry Potter is that it doesn’t matter what you’re born as it matters what you are inside. Funny that
It’s incredibly heavy handed though. Evil characters are evil because they are evil and good characters are good because they are good.
People are born this way in the Harry Potter universe and nobody ever changes.
Characters change a lot.
Dumbledore used to be aligned with a dark wizard who was his lover.
It’s revealed in the books that in school, James Potter and his friends were massive assholes who bullied Snape. Snape was pushed towards evil, but when when saw the consequences of that evil, he changed his ways and became a hero, while one of Potter’s best friends (Peter) turned out to be a cowardly villain. And then Peter ended up dying to save Harry later.
Malfoy’s family were racists and loved the idea of Voldemort returning and them being on the inner circle. But the reality of that was terrible, and in the end, they just wanted to escape.
With the caveat that anybody ‘good’ who is doing evil is just under such horrible circumstances! (pearl clutching shrieking) They aren’t bad, they just have horrible backstories. Poor snapeypoo was being bullied for half muggleness, and the girl he loved was so mean to him!