Moaning Myrtle isn’t a funny character. She’s tragic.
When you look at Moaning Myrtle as a character, people like to laugh about her but she’s actually a pretty tragic character in the Harry Potter series and we should talk about it.
Often, Moaning Myrtle is a character that is either made fun of by fans or used as a joke in the series but the more we learned about her, the more it was obvious that she had a rough life before dying young. So why is she a joke?
Because she’s a sad teenage girl trapped in a bathroom. For some reason, that’s something that’s funny despite the fact that Moaning Myrtle was killed and never really got to live her life. It’s interesting to see who think she’s a funny character versus the fans who realize how tragic she is.
It’s not that we can’t laugh at things that Myrtle does. Sometimes, she’s very clever about how she messes with Harry and his friends but she’s mocked for having a crush on Harry. She’s just a young girl who is trapped being a ghost for the rest of eternity and is even forced into a life of solitude because no one uses the bathroom she haunts.
It’s really kind of sad and the fact that she never really gets her due is something we should definitely look into because Moaning Myrtle isn’t a character that should be laughed at regularly and yet she is. It’s sad and she deserves better than whatever she’s given in the series and we should do better about how we talk about and write about Moaning Myrtle.
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