And I mean even IF Harry being inattentive was simply a diegetic "flaw": 1) You'd THINK somebody, ever, at any point, might remark upon it 2) Strange how this "flaw" conveniently allows the author to put forth a fraction of the effort into her narration she'd have to otherwise
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I mean I had ADHD so bad that it's repeatedly destroyed my life and brought me close to suicide and yet—despite not being one iota as inattentive as you'd have to be to know as little as Harry does—people have remarked on it to me about forty thousand times more
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Yeah. Harry being obtuse is sort of a writerly void. It's not an intentional flaw. It isn't something that Rowling sat down and chose to do. It's something she did without recognizing or fixing, that fans assigned as a character trait because GOD FORBID Rowling be less than great
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I mean, I do this with my writing. I recognize often where I fail as a writer, and sometimes I try to fix this but other times I recognize it serves the story as long as I fix XYZ later on in the plot. But the source is my failure and not my intentional craft.
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Listening to a podcast riffing on the series, and the perspective narration only really comes into play in the final book. It still reflects what the audience is supposed to think, though.
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Ohh what podcast?
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I feel like Luke does have a personality. He's whiny, full of himself, even petulant at times. A lot of the movie is spent developing him out of that. Lest we forget, dude wanted to join the space fash before they killed his family.
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Also if your character flaw is "Writes the book badly" then that's really the same as an author flaw no matter what, and a reason to not do a point of view narration. Like unreliable narrator is a thing but the user has to know some stuff for the story to work at a minimum!
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I've written an unreliable narrator story. It was fun; I had one narrator who was trying to work out what was going on, and another who knew damn well what was going on, but wasn't about to tell the reader or anyone else.
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