It's come to the point where my Harry Potter fixation has come around again, but instead of just re-reading the books and going on Pottermore to harass other people like a regular person-- my smooth brain is wanting to rewrite the entire series.
The world is great, the magic system can use some work but oh my sweet mother of crust do the characters need work
So many of the characters end up being static when there is SO much room for satisfying character arcs that don't mess with the story too bad :(
Aunt Petunia for example.
She has a truckload of resentment twords lily because of Lily's decision to go and live in the wizarding world rather than stay with petunia. Just think- for years, petunia would write letters to dumbledor almost everyday begging to go to Hogwarts.
That little girls hope to be as special as her sister, that little girl emotions when she was treated lesser than.
Petunia always had too much neck, she was a killjoy, and she would never be as special or as pretty as her sister.
But when lily would come home from Christmas the first person she would run to was petunia, to tell her about the school year, about a new crush or new spells she's learned. That's when she felt special. With her sister.
There is so much potential for raw emotion here. Petunia is such a static character, why?
I understand the books were made one by one, there wasn't a planned story really. This is mostly lead to characters like petunia to be static.
But think of a Harry Potter book where petunia shut herself in the master bedroom for days after getting the news from dumbledor her sister was killed.
The resentment, the anger, the sadness.
Petunia would have been a changed woman, and would she not have looked at Harry differently?
Harry's existence would just remind petunia of what was lost, what lily did to herself. But oh..he has her eyes, doesn't he?
Harry would look at petunia and she would flinch back. For a second she could have sworn she was a little girl again, playing with lily--
She would resent Harry too. How dare he live when her sister couldn't?
She would grow to hate those eyes.
When Harry gets his letter, petunia, for the first time in 11 years felt those raw emotions start to resurface. She would fling herself into Harry and hold him so close to her chest that Harry could feel his lungs compress.
For such a strong woman she had a strong grip.
She would sob and beg him not to go. Not to leave.
"there's only death for you!"
She would wail. She read the letter, she knew his fate. If she had to bury her nephew along with her sister the poor woman felt as though she would break.
Dudley was beyond shocked into silence. He'd never seen this hysteria over his cousin before. Vernon would be right beside his son, bewildered and scared.
Hagrid even felt pity for her, prying her off of Harry and holding her tightly as she sobbed hysterically.
Imagine this happening, imagine the change in character relationships. Harry would sure as hell not understand what that was be he had never gotten any kind of hug from his aunt before.
That could lead into questioning what that was about and Harry would learn about his parents ect.
In conclusion I'm falling into the stereotypes again--
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