: Re: How to make characters more than the words on the page? At the time of writing this question there are 5337 Harry Potter questions on SciFi and a further 165 on Movies. Many of these questions

TL;DR: The more interesting the character and the world is, the more people tend to think about them.

Long Version:

The shift happens, if a character is written so interesting, that thinking about his motives and actions is fun and delivers so many alternatives and hidden facts.

Sure not every possible battle, turn or Mystery can be told inside a story and most things are mentioned through the books and a little sidestory. But exactly this is, what made the characters and formed their decisions. In the course of the books the reader learns a small part of the character and think about these actions.

So, the reader has a small amount of facts and outcomes, but tends to question some decisions. The author himself has knowledge about the past of the character, his hardships, his values, his entire being. So if people question the behavior of a character, they want to know what drove him to that.

Good characters are so well written, that they couldn't be distinguished from real characters. People should find themselves in written characters, so they can associate with the characters and their decisions. So it's only natural to ask questions about them, cause that is what the author wants. Creating a world and characters, that stick inside the readers heads.

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