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What Do
You Mean,
Hermione
Granger’s Not
Real?
and kept looking around for Celia, thinking she should be around.
Then I realised she wasn’t going to turn up. I treat the characters in
my books like my own children sometimes – I can walk around the
supermarket knowing exactly what they’d like and dislike.” In fact,
more often than not, quotes from books or movies are attributed to
the character who says them, instead of the author who wrote them.
My favourite fictional character of all time is Hermione Granger
of the
Harry Potter
series, written by J.K. Rowling. It’s ironic that
though I’ve read so many lesser known books, I still seem to find
something incredibly unique in a character that’s so widespread
and popular. She means a lot to me – I identify with her, I laugh
and cry with her. I may even go so far as to say I look up to her, a
character that is so strong-willed and capable. However I know,
from hearing other people who love Hermione too, that my
Hermione is not the same as theirs. Even from interviews with
Rowling herself, I know that the character she created in her mind
isn’t the same as the character I interpreted. They are similar, but
not the same. It reminds me of the very first point I brought up:
that no two people see the world exactly the same. It’s the same in
principle. So why are we so quick to draw the line between the two,
saying that one is real while the other is not? Maybe reality’s not so
clear-cut after all.
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