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The Write Stuff: Character or Cuddly Toy?

This is not to be confused with something like Ted or Winnie the Pooh where the character is actually a magical Teddy Bear and that's the whole point.
 
In a story full of one-dimensional characters, Ginny Weasley is definitely the blandest of them all. No personality, no agency, no salient traits whatsoever. She's basically the princess Harry earns for being the hero, one of the many problematic lessons in J.K. Rowling's oeuvre.

I guess the teddy bear is the most extreme form of the foil, that supporting character whose main purpose is to show how heroic the protagonist is.
 
Not sure I'd agree with the Harry Potter examples as far as the books go.
 
I definitely think you're slandering Ron Weasley, at least in the books.

Good article, though: one property which has played with this very well was John Wick, whose basic 'revenge rampage' premise wonderfully sends up Taken and the like by replacing the kidnapped family/murdered wife/burned village with a dead dog.
 
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