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Comment author: MugaSofer 23 December 2012 03:26:48PM *  7 points [-]

Alicorn: McGonagall is not silly, it's true. McGonagall may be the best female character Eliezer has done. But I'd feel better about it if she'd been revised for hypercompetence while Moody was a minor side character serving as a cautionary tale about wasting time on low-probability risks, or something.

Trouble is, McGonagall was the first representative of Magical Britain we met, so she gets to represent the Average Wizard (average witch?)

EDIT: I meant that she's kind of a representative of the magical world generally. Wizards aren't generally hypercompetent.

Alphabeta: Also, why is Harry using Snape as his example of guys he might end up attracted to instead of Quirrelmort?

(It's a fandom in-joke.)

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2013 10:48:22PM 3 points [-]

Trouble is, McGonagall was the first representative of Magical Britain we met, so she gets to represent the Average Wizard (average witch?)

Exactly! Just like Hagrid was in canon.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2012 04:58:21PM 3 points [-]

Trouble is, McGonagall was the first representative of Magical Britain we met, so she gets to represent the Average Wizard (average witch?)

It didn't seem that way to me-- McGonagall is shown enough respect by other wizards and witches that she's clearly above average.

Comment author: MugaSofer 23 December 2012 10:21:15PM 2 points [-]

I meant that more in terms of she's kind of a representative of the magical world generally. Wizards aren't generally hypercompetent.

Hmm, that didn't come across very well.

Comment author: Alsadius 24 December 2012 12:55:25AM 6 points [-]

I think it's fair. She's competent, but she's not superhuman. In a fic based around the interaction of ~3 people who are(Harry, Quirrell, and Dumbledore), she's going to come off second-best.

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