1. Who is your least favorite character in the series and why? Peter Pettigrew. There is so much to dislike and disrespect, I can't really see a single redeeming quality in this character. He wants to live, preferably with the least amount of pain possible. Well, that is not enough in my opinion. And if it is enough for someone to just survive, to do some of the most terrible deeds possible on both a personal and social level to survive, then that person is pathetic and needs to get squashed. Despite not ever really showing qualities that make him a good friend, the other marauders take him in and treat him as one of them. He’s chubby and rat-faced, and alright he doesn’t have enough of a spine to be a nemesis for them or even too pathetic to pick on or something. But he goes along. They help him have fun throughout their lives, and when the war comes, he chose to fight with them. And when he got trusted to hold James and Lily and Harry essentially in his hands, he gave it out to save his own skin.
But oh, not only that! He doesn’t want to go to Azkaban, so he frames one of his best friends (who was rightfully going after him) and breaks the heart of his remaining best friend, who thinks he is dead. That’s not a great track record. And is it really worth it? He survived. And he could have gone to South America and have a real life somewhere, but no he lives as a rat for a poor family. Wow, so glorious. Let me spend a decade doing that, please. /sarcasm. And Harry saves his life when that gig goes topside, and what does he do? South America now? No, lets bring back the Dark Lord and lead more innocent people to die, including working toward Harry’s death. And all of this does him NO good because he questioned his pathetic self for a moment, which let Harry live, and so he kills himself. That made me go “…?” Certainly twelve years as a rat and four as the despised servant of the Dark Lord is not worth what he did, wouldn’t be worth it at all. And for all that, he is despicable scum without any redeeming qualities.
2. How would you react if someone insulted you deeply, refused to apologize, and made it very clear that nothing you do will change their opinion? Preferably, I would have nothing to do with them. That will never be a good person to interact with. However, I have been in this situation before when we had to work together. I did not explode. I did my job coolly, sometimes with an extra drive to beat him and be better than him, and at our worst outbursts we exchanged witticisms. We did scare people when for two months we were simply deadly polite to each other. But yes, I live my life, I go on, and I deal with them as calmly as possible without showing how murderous I actually feel on the inside. Because I know that unless they're somehow going to damage or try to wreck what I'm working towards, they're not really worth my time and effort to truly hurt them back. So I shrug it off and I compartmentalize my emotions in order to get the job done, and even though I might be seething on the inside, the job will always get done.
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Date: 2009-04-02 04:38 pm (UTC)But oh, not only that! He doesn’t want to go to Azkaban, so he frames one of his best friends (who was rightfully going after him) and breaks the heart of his remaining best friend, who thinks he is dead. That’s not a great track record. And is it really worth it? He survived. And he could have gone to South America and have a real life somewhere, but no he lives as a rat for a poor family. Wow, so glorious. Let me spend a decade doing that, please. /sarcasm. And Harry saves his life when that gig goes topside, and what does he do? South America now? No, lets bring back the Dark Lord and lead more innocent people to die, including working toward Harry’s death. And all of this does him NO good because he questioned his pathetic self for a moment, which let Harry live, and so he kills himself. That made me go “…?” Certainly twelve years as a rat and four as the despised servant of the Dark Lord is not worth what he did, wouldn’t be worth it at all. And for all that, he is despicable scum without any redeeming qualities.
2. How would you react if someone insulted you deeply, refused to apologize, and made it very clear that nothing you do will change their opinion? Preferably, I would have nothing to do with them. That will never be a good person to interact with. However, I have been in this situation before when we had to work together. I did not explode. I did my job coolly, sometimes with an extra drive to beat him and be better than him, and at our worst outbursts we exchanged witticisms. We did scare people when for two months we were simply deadly polite to each other. But yes, I live my life, I go on, and I deal with them as calmly as possible without showing how murderous I actually feel on the inside. Because I know that unless they're somehow going to damage or try to wreck what I'm working towards, they're not really worth my time and effort to truly hurt them back. So I shrug it off and I compartmentalize my emotions in order to get the job done, and even though I might be seething on the inside, the job will always get done.