I originally f'locked this out of habit, but figured I might as well leave it open. We'll see how that goes...

I have read stuff since DH about how people liked the Malfoys in it because they were on their own side and not either side. It made me think about why I found this story ( disappointing. )

This came from an exchange in the comments on bookshop's post about women in HP that I'm sort of elaborating on. Rowling has said, looking at the series that it is "a litany of bad fathers" because that's where she thinks "evil" tends to "flourish"--where people didn't get "good fathering."

( It made me think about mothers in canon. Longer than I expected, with weird stuff about Hagrid! )

Happy birthday arclevelI was having a conversation today that touched on Lucius Malfoy...I've never talked much about Lucius, but after HBP especially I'm very fond of the character. One of the problems with him is that I think, like Draco, there's always been such a question mark as to what kind of character he really is. People have always just filled ( Read more... )