HRM 6300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hogwarts
13 Feb 2018
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I must confess, i love books with villain protagonists. There"s just something about having an evil or, at least, not good main character that i can really relate to. Because who doesn"t get tired of reading about some goody two- Writing good villains and by good, i mean evil and conniving isn"t easy. There are tons of trope pitfalls you can break your ankle in. I"m a fan of the magnificent bastard, myself, but it"s just a short hop over to the villain sue, especially if you let your antagonist talk too much. Those problems don"t disappear when your book has a villain protagonist, but you"re far less likely to write a terrible bad guy when he"s your main character. And 50 points to slytherin if you make him a complete monster and subject us to his internal musings. Because, seriously, there"s nothing like getting inside the head of a fantastically irredeemable character.
