Post by Professor Albus Dumbledore on Aug 31, 2011 23:39:58 GMT -5
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The thing that makes Rita the best example for the "Tear Jerker" category is how she so fantastically isn't who/what you'd typically think of. It's not some poor sob story about sweet little Rita being picked on and tormented by the world. Rita is no victim by any means and Kabby doesn't even need to use cliched falls backs for evoking emotion from the reader. Kabby does such a fantastic job because Rita is being combative and cruel and essentially the one picking on Ted and throwing harsh words at him. She's not wallowing in her own self pity, she's angry and bitter and vindictive and it is fantastic. You feel for Rita because you're not feeling sorry for her, but empathizing with her. Rita is complicated and you have to both love and hate her. What's heart breaking is being able to know what she's thinking but then reading all the lies spilling from her lips as she tries to convince Ted that she doesn't care about it. It's real, natural and evokes complicated emotions from the reader, so kudos to Kabby for making this multifaceted character!------
Okay, so I was supposed to write something about a character for the Best Tear Jerker, and honestly? Rita Skeeter was candidate number one. I can’t even begin to explain the extent to which Kabby has managed to develop this little brain baby of hers into something as wonderfully excellent as Rita is now. I don’t know how Kabby did it, but Rita has so much depth to her! A stupid drunken act over the summer wrecked one of the best relationships she’d ever been in with a boy she loved, who loved her back and suddenly it was just not there anymore. And still, she kept on, pretended she didn’t care, got herself a fling over the summer and paraded around Hogwarts once she was back. You’d think her story with Ted would end there, right? Even months later, months, at the back of their minds, they loved each other. I don’t even know how I managed to not bawl my eyes out during that last thread Kabby and Fief did with Rita, Ted, and Annie. I read the whole thing, word by word, clinging to my laptop like a lifeline; hung on every word that passed between them. Ted asking to marry her and Rita so confused, and upset, and heartbroken and looking for something she’s not so sure she knows what it is. And this, this is why, in her own way, I think Rita deserves the Best Tear Jerker award. Not because she’s constantly sad, or constantly scorned or pitiful, but because she’s so not on the outside, when deep down, there’s a whole hurricane of emotions that, eighteen or not, she doesn’t know how to handle. Congrats, Kabby, you’ve done a spectacular job with her.
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