I see red when...

[_rp_zeal_]

The 'Does JKR want us to hate Draco?' thread was probably one of the longest running Draco discussion (with many otherwisely titled spin-offs) in recent HPFGU history. My own view on this is that Rowling has not wanted her readers to hate Draco- the way the majority of HP fanbase do Umbridge, for example- but she did expect the general readership

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[merrymelody]

What I would hate the most I guess, is for it to turn out that the anti-Dracoers after all have had arrived at the right conclusions, even though they had used the poorest logics to get there.

Yes, and sadly that kind of thing seems to happen quite frequently here (for instance, pre-OotP Fanon!Ginny being pretty similiar to OotP!Ginny) I guess using poor logic is helpful when analysing JKR's work! ;)

"To a certain Ms. Radcliffe" was snappish IMOHa! I bet that annoyed the shit out of her, especially since she's always saying how no-one likes poor Danny-kins/Harry (...Can I have some of that crack you're smoking, Jo

[merrymelody]

I liked this post, though, because the dragon thing always bugged me for much the same reasons (and interestingly, like the whole Dudley/cake thing is something people often seem to mix up with movie!canon - in a total non-fanon, unlike-Slytherin-fangurlz!111 way, of course) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129742
And hey, Magpie's recced in there somewhere! :)

[_rp_zeal_]

Yeah, I've always read the dragon scene pretty much the same way that poster did too. Since I was yet a devoted Draco apologetic at the time, thought I was being rather unbiased... Or, I was simply reading it all wrong again X-D!

[sistermagpie]

It's kind of silly the way people think Slytherin fans take things too seriously when you see the way Draco's spoken about by those who dislike him. You can hear the contempt dripping off people when they describe how he so "clearly" bought his way onto the team (um, actually JKR hasn't made that clear because it doesn't really hold up) or acted like a wuss in front of Crouch after being bounced around

[merrymelody]

Yeah, someone said when the whole thing came up on the snitch (for the umpteenth time) that if it's crazy to like/enjoy reading about such a minor, unimportant, blah blah blah character that it's equally as crazy to devote yourself to hating them.

And presumably if they were going to be evil, they'd be good at it.

Heh. Reminds me of that conversation Adella was describing:

PERSON: OMG, Draco is so evil, I hate him, he'd hurt anyone if he could! (Gotta love that person saying that it was only the DA's swift actions that stopped him from killing Harry)
ADELLA: But here are X canonical examples of him having the opportunity to hurt someone and not doing it.
PERSON: Because he's too wimpy! If Harry/Hermione were going to hurt someone, they'd do it properly!

But dude, give them a bully who's *obviously* vulnerable and really didn't want to be in the position of Jr. Representative of evil? They can't wait to pile on.Aw. And it's pretty neat, considering that the very thing bullies themselves look for is weakness (Draco doesn't hex

[_rp_zeal_]

Plus the 'Whyyyyyy do people make Malfoy more important than he is?' followed by 'Draco reminds me of Voldemort in some ways.' Way to undermine your own argument.

Oh, gotta love it when people write 40K worth of comment explaining why Draco is a non-identity and they absolutely don't care one way or another about him ;P Um. Okay... Maybe I'm just weird, but my indifference toward a certain subject usually manifests through never clicking on and hence never joining any discussion concerning the particular subject. Hmmmmmmm...

[go_back_chief]

Hee! Imagine if I would go to great lengths writing about how I don't think Zacharias is going to be an important character, and why des he have all these fangirls, when it's obvious that he's already played his part? ;D