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testingt 2008.04.16 - 05:08PM 15: Draco's Detour Signed
Your Draco is believable--a combination of squeamishness and malice. It's clear that he enjoys the scheming part rather than hurting anything. You also emphasize that Draco is motivated to strike in retribution, he doesn't attack first. (I doublechecked canon--in PS, Ron makes fun of Draco--his name--before Draco does Ron, just as James and Sirius attack Severus on their first Hogwarts Express. So JKR has actually established a pattern of the noble Gryffindors gratuitously initiating attacks against Slytherins, then calling the Slytherins evil for responding--really, did the woman pay attention to what she wrote? You, however, apparently do.) Not that your Draco is nice, but his mixture of motives is comprehensible if not admirable. Thanks again.

Author's Response: That's what I'm after - making Draco understandable as a kid with issues, rather than a one-dimensional "evil" character. I think also that the role of family plays an important role with the Malfoys. Thanks for your comments! Regarding canon...I can't resist discussing it. I feel like a minority among Snape fans now with canon complete, because I think Rowling knows exactly what she wrote, and meant to write it. Angelic Gryffindor and Demonic Slytherin are in my view not what she was after. Some of her favorite, most dearly loved characters are Gryffindor, but that is not saying the same thing. Regarding Draco as a parallel to Snape, I agree he is terms of his reactiveness, but I think he is at least as strong, and equally deliberately, a parallel for James. Privileged, Pureblood, popular, Quidditch stars...and this is underlined when Rowling puts the same words in their mouths on the train (just switch "Hufflepuff" and "Slytherin").




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