Why are all the best film characters orphans?

Why are all the best film characters orphans?

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what would you see if you looked into the mirror?

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Orphans always make the best recruits.

I now realize his mom looks like an older ginnie

>orphans

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Makes writing easier

Because it's just another trope in the bag of shit writing cliches Rowling employs in one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from hogwarts academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when rowling vetoed the idea of spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The harry potter series might be anti-christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-james bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "Stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of harry potter by the same stephen king. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading harry potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read stephen king." and he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry potter" you are, in fact, trained to read stephen king.

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It's a staple in children's literature for a reason. I think every Roald Dahl mc was an orphan

>DEH

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Like who?

Child characters in general I think, from Dickens there was Oliver Twist, Pip and Nell Trent

Do you think Harry ever masturbated to the mirror during the months he went to look at it on his own at night? He's a hormonal boy after all.
Do you think one night he just felt the urge to strip naked and masturbate furiously while staring into the mirror, determinately looking his parents in the eyes as he reduced himself to that stage. Would the reflections react to it like they did when he stretched out his hand to them the very first time? They would be locked in the mirror, unable to escape, forced to watch their beloved son on all fours, growling like a deranged dog, beating his meat with a furious tenacity maintaining eye contact at all times.

>hey would be locked in the mirror, unable to escape, forced to watch their beloved son on all fours, growling like a deranged dog, beating his meat with a furious tenacity maintaining eye contact at all times.
Christ user, the fuck did I just read

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Because everyone can relate to them, and love them, and worship them, and look up to them. Pic related.

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>his mirror mom takes off her clothes and gives him a true mommy JOI video to watch

That explains why Harry was so attracted to Ginny in the first place, I guess.

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Seriously Harry was the worst character in his own story

Its a lot less weird because he never actually saw his mom while he was a conscious human.

It's a lot closer in the films because Daniel had blue eyes so they got his mum to have blue too which is like Ginny, but Harry and his mum had green eyes in the books. People still said it was oedipal then too though.

because writers can't project their mommy/daddy issues onto them. this makes them less butthurt and mad overall.

He got a wizarding photo album full of pictures of her and James from Hagrid in his first year, and when he first met a Dementor he remembered the night they were murdered.

No, a woman wrote the book so she didn't write Harry to be a deranged degenerate brainlet.

Its ridiculous that he would be able to remember anything as a baby and while magic pictures move, the ones he had didn't happen to be able to communicate with him. For some reason.

Main characters in kid's books are inherently terrible and boring because they're young and stupid as fuck but because they're the hero of the story they overcome anything thrown at them.

Harry is a terrible character with no personality or skills, yet triumphs every time because that's what happens when you're the hero in a kid's book

If that's what happens when Harry looks into the mirror....what happens when Dumbledore looks into it? What are the socks for?

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DEH!

because the idea of being orphaned is wildly fantasized by the hordes of normies who love the two media franchises that popularized it (harry potter and jon snow)

the average harry potter/game of thrones fan grew up in a well adjusted middle class normal nuclear family home with multiple siblings. being an orphaned outsider is foreign to them so they excitisize it

No Katniss is even better than Harry. The MCs from the Time Quintet or Narnia are better than Harry. He is just something you're supposed to want to project yourself onto but you don't.

>Its ridiculous that he would be able to remember anything as a baby
I doubt he did, the dementors magic "re-live your worst moments" aura probably overcomes it, the same way the pensieve memory spell capture details that there's no way you could have really seen or remembered
>while magic pictures move, the ones he had didn't happen to be able to communicate with him. For some reason.
Photos are just captured moments in time, barely lasting longer than the flash, it's only painted portraits that can interact with the real world beyond waving

Dementors make you relive the worst moments of your life just by being near to you, not much of a stretch that they would activate the trauma Harry went through as a baby
Also photographs move but aren't able to speak or anything, only portraits can do that. It's never explained how that works or who makes them but for some reason it seems nobody made a portrait of James and Lily

I'm not an orphan but all my siblings are either old or handicapped beyond the power of speech, and my parents don't like me.

I'm an orphan is one of my favorite characters, what now fag?

Harry didn't go through trauma as a baby, he had literal poop in his pants when his mother died. Babies pretty much don't know wtf is going on. I remember being nauseous because there was too much beige in my room and I was angry because I had to wear itchy stupid baby socks. I don't think I'd realize if someone died in front of me but I guess I can't really say.

My harem of waifus.

A world without the dullest franchise in the history of film franchises.

Me in some nice clothes, cleaned up, being the best I can be instead of autistic human refuse

The socks were a lie, Harry realizes that five minutes later when he realized it's a pretty personal question to ask anyone. What Dumbledore really sees in the mirror is likely something to do with his dead sister, he probably sees a vision of him and his siblings being happy in a world where the duel that killed her never happened.

Oh my god man I don't know if this is one person doing this shit or what but just let it go, nobody cares that you know about cancer memes

Wew, I forgot he had a sister

>let it go
"No!"

Me standing with 100 acres of beautiful land behind me

Or just money enough to buy it if the mirror wants to condense it down I guess.

...a pair of socks, user.

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>d-deh dehst deh dehs deh deh dehough d-deh
"Deh!"
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It switches between his sister being alive and Aberforth not hating him, to him bent over with Grindewalds cock in his ass, depending on how horn he was that particular moment. This was confirmed by Rowling in one of her Twitter posts a year or two ago.

Oh dear....no...no no no no.

I knew about the real in-book canon reason. I was asking as a joke...a witticism, a gag, a bon mot, a fluctuation of words concluding with a trick ending.....

This guy gets it.

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So did the movie, almost. One of the biggest plotlines in the final book was the slow revelation of Dumbledore's past and his true character, the story of his younger sister being one the main points.
In the movie they put in one short line from Aberforth, blink and you miss it.

I still think the biggest travesty in the movies is that they split the last book in half but still used fuck all of the material and padded it out with trash like that scene where Harry grabs Voldemort and jumps off a bridge. Fucking baffling decisions.

A character young enough is defined by their parents. Orphans allow for more blank slate characters to be influenced by things that happen to them

It's actually quite common that people look for partners that reflect similar traits to their parents. It's another factor in why many lasting partners look similar to one another.

thank you for that

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Being orphaned is a very easy and universal way for real people for feel sympathy for the main character, and it creates an easily understandable internal conflict. It's also used often because of the relationship between a kid's real parents (considered their foster parents) and their ideal of a parent (the "real parents" they long to meet)

>could've had the death scene for Fred
>could've had Percy coming back and making amends instead of shoving him in as an extra
>could've expanded on the final battle by showing Lupin and Tonks fighting and/or dying
Nope, let's put in an exploding bridge, Voldemort robe tentacles, and have him and Bellatrix explode for no reason when they die

We are all orphans in this world, since our Father won't talk to us.

this is no longer welcome in potter threads
is the new required pasta

still more believable than hermione being black

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Why didn't the "wizards" let themselves go out of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises? Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

a-at least the books were good though

"No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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>Disgusting shaggy hair
>Glasses
>Generally ugly
>Being called a "mudblood" as a part of the plot
>Retarded made up name

Unpopular opinion but I genuinely can not only see Hermionee as being black, but think the series would be better if she had been from the start. Doesn't excuse the fact that Rowling 100% created her to be white at first.

It's just a useful plot device that gets rid of the wise and experienced parents to fall back on as a safety net, which makes it perfect for stories about children who need to face various difficulties, there's no real safe haven or designated adults to help them out.

Rowling said her main motivation for using a boarding school setting was so the characters didn't have their parents around all the time, meaning that the youngsters had to do things on their own most of the time. Early drafts were set in a regular magic school where everyone went back home at the end of the day, but the story would lose a lot of jeopardy if the main cast wasn't secluded in some way for most of it.

This. It's the same way modern films now have to find a way to get rid of cell phones in order to make plots that just used to work, work.

DEH

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>Damn, I don't get service here
>Damn, phone's dead
>Damn, the battery isn't charged
>Damn, we're too far away from an antenna

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>Retarded made up name
Hermione is an existing name user, it's not common or anything but it is one of the few names in the series that's actually used, unlike shit like Mundungus/Argus/Bellatrix/Draco/just about any other name in HP. And you have any idea how bad the movies would flop if she was black, Watson's Hermione is like the biggest reason people kept coming back even if they hated the movies. and if anything it's house elves that should be black, slaving away for no pay and jizzing at the thought of being given a sock

>House elves
Thanks for giving me another reason she should be black.

Anyway I agree Watson was a top notch cunny but in general, the character Hermione would have been better written as black.

>Even the wisest cannot tell
>For the mirror... shows many things
>Things that were
>Things that are
>And somethings... That have not yet come to pass

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making a character an orphan is the lazy way to make a character sympathetic. Right out the gate your character has got massive victim points.

This is especially true of detectives and murder mysteries. Those genres worked perfectly in the past but now they need to come up with convoluted ways to bypass the fact people can communicate instantly with anyone because it destroys any tension.

Just how many times can they convincingly get away with having everyone's phone being dead or out of battery at the same time in an age where everyone carries a spare charger? That's why nowadays all those stories are set in remote places like mountain ranges, airplanes, cruise ships and the like, and it's getting old. If you want a believable setting without phones or internet you're better off setting it in the 80's or earlier.

>Do you think one night he just felt the urge to strip naked and masturbate furiously while staring into the mirror, determinately looking his parents in the eyes
>forced to watch their beloved son on all fours, growling like a deranged dog, beating his meat with a furious tenacity maintaining eye contact at all times.
something very dark and disturbing about this and weirdly arousing

>Three brooms written off, five thestrals put down, two in intensive care, a troll let loose in Hogsmeade, four supposed death eaters in my cells, a Gringots vault busted and so many goblins on my ass that I’m thinking of changing my name to Bilbo fucking Baggins. You got anything to add to this report, Potter?
>You read it all, Professor
>Thought not. Well I have no choice. You’re promoted!

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Every time

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It's the part about 'maintaining eye contact'....the eyes are the window to the soul.

You'd get the same feeling from something like this:

>Dudley had no idea what was coming, but he couldn't help but moan as he felt it moving inside him.
>He tried to close his eyes, but the feeling was too good.
>Mrs. Figg knew this of course, and she held his gaze as she gently thrust the umbrella further inside...

Me with a smile on my face

>harry..
>did i ever tell you about severus snape?
>i bullied him so hard he nearly destroyed the school with his magic
>the only thing preventing him was your mother stringing him along in the friend zone

The mirror wouldn't show me anything. I'd look into it and see nothing reflected back at me.

>implying snape wasnt harry's real dad

mew not being a whore

pic related

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Me in power armor at a black lives matter rally.
I can smell the gatling gun fire now!

dunno it's not really the same, I think it's the dark picture it paints of a boy lost in primal lust combined with how the onlookers can't escape and forced to watch, and 'growling like a deranged dog' that gets me

Then why was Harry a carbon copy of James Potter but with green eyes?

cuck magic
>wifesonifus transformicus!

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And them Dumbledore did the same thing. Snape was quite the cuck

poly juice potion while she breastfed.

A happy tranny.

big tiddy goth gf

Those names would be normal for mages, but doesnt Hermione come from a mudblood family? What are the odds a mudblood family would call her such an outlandish name that would later prove to be "normal" in a magician's world?

James was never described in the books. Every adult who meets Harry just says he has his mother's eyes and he looks exactly like his "father". Everyone knew. Lupin, Sirius, Dumbledore, everyone. Snape looks like shit now but if you knock off 15 years, cut his hair and put some glasses on him I guarantee he looks like Harry.
Why the hell do you think Snape cared so much? He cucked James and got Lily pregnant, then after they're killed he spends his life protecting his son Harry. When he tells Dumbledore that no one can know it doesn't mean what you think it means.

That doesn't work. Doesn't Sirius accidentally call Harry 'James' when they're fighting in the hall in the department of mysteries?

What drugs you on boy? Hermione is a normal girls name in the UK, not as common as Daisy or Emily or whatever but it's out there. Wizard names are all over the shop anyway because you have names like Mundungus and Amos, but you also have the Weasleys who are purebloods through and through and they all have the most common and boring real life muggle names you can think of like Ron, Fred, George, Bill etc

I see myself, jacking off a pair of thick wooden cocks

Me with a normal life and a gf

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>what would you see if you looked into the mirror?
Boring question. Here's a better one; what would be in the Room of Requirement if you found it?

Hookers and blow

Me with my dad ;_;

>Why the hell do you think Snape cared so much? He cucked James and got Lily pregnant, then after they're killed he spends his life protecting his son Harry. When he tells Dumbledore that no one can know it doesn't mean what you think it means.

Yes, that's why he openly hates Harry for what is clearly stated to be the way Harry acts like James Potter did when he was Harry's age, and he tells Dumbledore that he saved Harry only out of love for Lily.

i always hated this scene

his parents were like 20 when they died and they look like they're in their fuckin 40's

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this but this
imagine a room full of prostitutes and mountains of coke

A girl