Harry becomes James

[readingdeatheater]

I know that is is always said that Harry looks like James but i feel that by the end of the books JK Rowling made him into his father rather than give him is own personality.

• Both of them gave there first born the name James in some respects
  
• They both Married red heads with a Fiery personality
  

I might just be being cynical but it does feel like JK took away Harry's personality at the end of the books by making him become his dead father.

[Chameleon]

Ehm, James wasn't an Auror, by the way. He lived of his family's fortune, and was a full-time member of the Order. The Auror-thing is fanon.

Although I thought it was a bit annoying that they both married redheads.

And the James name. Well. It's natural for a son to name his own son after his father. And there's people who get their middle names from their parents' names.

[eskimoRock]

I think it's natural for Harry to name his child after his dead father. You know, plenty of people do it, I thought it was touching.

In my opinion, James was immature and a bully up until seventh year. Harry was always a good guy, and never acted like an idiot - he had a completely different personality. The only things I think are the same are his looks, and the fact that he marries a redhead.

To be honest, I don't think the redhead thing is a big deal, it was blown out of proportion. There are four natural haircolours. Harry happened to fall in love with a red headed girl. Surely you'd prefer Ginny to some random girl?

[readingdeatheater]

Aug 21, 2012 15:15:22 GMT -5 Chameleon said:

Ehm, James wasn't an Auror, by the way. He lived of his family's fortune, and was a full-time member of the Order. The Auror-thing is fanon.

Although I thought it was a bit annoying that they both married redheads.

And the James name. Well. It's natural for a son to name his own son after his father. And there's people who get their middle names from their parents' names.

My bad on that, should have checked oops i shall change that

[Chameleon]

No problem, it's easily to think that James was an Auror, since we get the picture that Lily and James were a successful couple, and there follows often a job in that description.

[readingdeatheater]

Ok looking at the early results i can say that i was wrong and thinking back i was incorect, maybe i should have said JK made harry and Ginny into a younger James and Lily. or is it the wording of the question.

[19811945]

Apart from the looks, Harry is nothing like his father. Harry has more life experience by the time he has left Hogwarts than James did.

[Chameleon]

Of course Harry had more life experience, when he left Hogwarts, as he was Voldemort's target number one. James was allowed to be more carefree in school.

[werewulfking]

I don't think she made Harry into James. As it was said the only similarity are the looks of Harry and Ginny compared to James and Lily.

I mean Ginny has a different personality from the few scraps that we can gather of her in the books. I mean Lily was rather serious compared to Ginny and also most likely a bit more bookish. Rather more like Hermione although not as hard core studious.

And the naming thing, meh. It depends on the person I think. I would not name my children for a relative but something similar is acceptable. Or a variation of the name.

And on the auror topic: An auror has to go through training for three more years. James would have finished just shortly before his death if he wanted to become an auror.
And if we talk about jobs Ginny is really much different from Lily. Lily didn't care much about Quidditch and she became a mom very soon after she left school.

[Chameleon]

The fact is also that we don't much of James and Lily's personality. James was a bully in his fifth year. A Quidditch star. Lily defended her friends from bullies, and great at Potions. We think they're great to Charms and Transfiguration from their wands. They were brilliant students in school. They were Head Boy and Girl. That's what we know.

So Lily could have loved Quidditch or despised it. She could have been pretty bookish, or just average in that field. That she got mom pretty quickly after school could have been a accident, or something like that.

It's why I love read about James and Lily. I want to learn them to know on different ways.

[readingdeatheater]

i am going to close the poll but leave this open to dissgusion and looking at the evidence i can see i was worng i think i was thinking of Harry and Ginny Being like James and Lily as a couple.

[dracosfairmaiden]

I think he took after James a little but still had his own personality. I actually think Harry takes after Lily more than James. Harry always had this compassion for people like Lily. Sure Harry was great at Quidditch like James, but he wasn't as arrogant. I see more of Lily than James in Harry.

As for Ginny being like Lily, I don't know. She does seem to be a fiery person, but we don't know much about Lily. I can see why people would think that she is exactly like Lily though.

[readingdeatheater]

Maybe it would be nice if JK wrote another couple of books showing what Lily, James and Co were like in school because we know very little about them

[werewulfking]

Yes that would be very nice.
But always this talk about "fiery personality". I mean what does it even mean? As I wrote before I always imagined Lily as a more bookish, rule upholding and "motherly" person than Ginny. While she is more reckless, has a certain disregard for rules, strong desire to prove herself, gets angry more easily.
She also likes Quidditch more than Lily, likes to be flashy.
That is the impression I get from them.

[dracosfairmaiden]

Now that I think about it, Lily does seem to be more like Hermione. But at the same time, she does have some traits of Ginny. She's a combo of both it seems like. The only other character that's more developed than Ginny or Hermione is Luna and Lily doesn't strike me as a Luna-type character.

[werewulfking]

How the hell is Luna more developed? We only see one or two sides from her. The "she is a rather strange girl believing in fantasy creatures" and a more serious side when she is helping her friends.

[brokenquill92]

I think Ginny and Harry is a reverse Lily and James

[Miss Wings]

oddly enough i've just read the beginning of a story where harry becomes james thanks to sirius..

[Miss Wings]

www.fanfiction.net/s/8474427/1/Becoming_James

[readingdeatheater]

I read the story and i think the author makes a good point that had Sirius lived harry may have tried to become more like his father with his God-Fathers influence.