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11900326 No.11900326 [Reply] [Original]

In what parts of the books do Harry's actions have a relevant impact on the story? It looks like he is guided or bailed out of jail by other people a lot.

On a side-note: what are some (possibly good) stories where what looks like the protagonist is more of a spectator?

>> No.11900330

>>11900326
my diary desu

>> No.11900337

>>11900326
Invitation to a beheading
The Tartar Steppe
A man asleep
Things: A Story of the Sixties
Invisible cities

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>>11900326

>protagonist is more of a spectator

I felt this about The Great Gatsby, and it annoyed me. Like Gatsby was the proper protagonist and the protag existed only to observe and reveal him for the reader.

>> No.11900398

Moby Dick

>> No.11900412

>>11900326
neil gaimans neverwhere

>> No.11900431

>>11900398

If you consider Ishmael the protagonist then yeah, but it's arguably Ahab.

>> No.11900435

>>11900431
you should consider the whale

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>>11900435
Call me plump and stately, surrounded by heads and bodies

>> No.11901051

>>11900326
and it all wouldn't have happened for him if he wasn't marked by Voldemort. JK Rowling is secretly blackpilling youngsters telling them, in an unconvential way that free will is bullshit