It's supposed to be funny, I don't know if you guys find it so.
I thought the pig thing was rather creepy back in PS. It's like Dahl again! You're not supposed to like, say, the Twits, but their demise doesn't really make you feel good. Eugh.
The Twins, I don't know. A lot of what they do is on the line of pranks/vs malice. I don't dislike them...but there are bits, like when Ron is trying to find out who they're sending mail to, where they seem to suddenly radiate malice and danger for no real reason.
Dursleys. From reading the beginning of PS, they're so...I guess charming is the wrong word, but you know. Before all the Harry-abuse, we're just supposed to dislike them because they hatez imagination like all evil/lame adults in children's books, and shun Lily and don't embrace teh crazy of the owl invasion etc. Their Dursleyish interactions are just cute, though. But if the Dursleys *had* treated Harry like a son, wouldn't he have ended up as coddled and silly as Dudley? Isn't it a good thing for him that he had the three of them as examples of how not to be?
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Date: 2005-09-11 02:38 pm (UTC)I thought the pig thing was rather creepy back in PS. It's like Dahl again! You're not supposed to like, say, the Twits, but their demise doesn't really make you feel good. Eugh.
The Twins, I don't know. A lot of what they do is on the line of pranks/vs malice. I don't dislike them...but there are bits, like when Ron is trying to find out who they're sending mail to, where they seem to suddenly radiate malice and danger for no real reason.
Dursleys. From reading the beginning of PS, they're so...I guess charming is the wrong word, but you know. Before all the Harry-abuse, we're just supposed to dislike them because they hatez imagination like all evil/lame adults in children's books, and shun Lily and don't embrace teh crazy of the owl invasion etc. Their Dursleyish interactions are just cute, though. But if the Dursleys *had* treated Harry like a son, wouldn't he have ended up as coddled and silly as Dudley? Isn't it a good thing for him that he had the three of them as examples of how not to be?