Right, so I've been living under a rock, and only just realised this community exists. *coughs* Let's move on, shall we?
I don't know how much I can say really, because I agree with most of your post, the parts about the parallels between the characters, and Snape's character not changing, but rather our perception shifting.
I don't know the extent to which those parallels are authorial intent, or Rowling producing a 'happy accident' of sorts. I don't care much for authorial intent in general, but I won't let myself hope that Rowling will actually do something with Draco's potential, and turn him into a more complicated character. I think she personnaly dislikes the character too much, and for other reasons than she dislikes Snape. But as it is with current canon, the parallels stand.
Draco comes running in, like he's welcome at all times (god, that really came out a lot more shippy than I had intended!), Yes, yes it did, but do go on: I'm getting quite the illicit thrill from the Snaco subtext
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What those fics seem to ignore is that neither character is in Slytherin by mistake. The fact that they're Slytherins pretty much indicates they at least tolerate each other's company, and the company of other within their House. Did that sentence make any sense?
Oh it makes perfect sense and I agree tha it's the same thing. So basically, the writers of these fics and theories seem to have unquestioningly bought into the whole Gryffindor=Nice thing, and thus they're making Snape or Draco into a Gryffindor, because they want to think the character in question is Nice/Alright, or, they may not actually think so, but want to make him so in their fic. And so these kinds of fics/theories become hard to swallow both for those of us who don't necessarily accept Gryffindor=Nice, and those of us who don't want to see Draco/Snape "nice" (because we can love them anyway! *looks defiant*)
I think she personnaly dislikes the character too much, and for other reasons than she dislikes Snape.Not that I want to give you
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That Dudley quote was up recently, and to my surprise JKR says in it that we should, "keep our eye" on Dudley. Yet post-OotP didn't she say something completely the opposite, saying there was nothing to him and if anybody was expecting more about him that was it? She also, in that original quote, I think, said something about how while she might kid about Dudley she feels he's been wronged, which I hope holds true for her other brat as well. Though at the time, whenever that quote was, she said Dudley basically wasn't given any skills he needed to succeed in life because his parents coddled him. Yet in Book V Dudley has a bit of a makeover, doesn't he? He's not smooth by any means, but I could certainly see him having a life, even if it was a life of petty crime
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I agree on all accounts here, she DOES really seem to have changed, and if that's so, one rightly wonders if the books will also be changed from what she originally intended.
But that's also why I don't really trust the interviews anymore. I mean in one, she says she won't reveal any pairings because "it would spoil all the fun", and only six months later she does exactly what she said she wouldn't do. But the question is, under these circumstances, how reliable are her words? On anything?
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I don't know how much I can say really, because I agree with most of your post, the parts about the parallels between the characters, and Snape's character not changing, but rather our perception shifting.
I don't know the extent to which those parallels are authorial intent, or Rowling producing a 'happy accident' of sorts. I don't care much for authorial intent in general, but I won't let myself hope that Rowling will actually do something with Draco's potential, and turn him into a more complicated character. I think she personnaly dislikes the character too much, and for other reasons than she dislikes Snape. But as it is with current canon, the parallels stand.
Draco comes running in, like he's welcome at all times (god, that really came out a lot more shippy than I had intended!), Yes, yes it did, but do go on: I'm getting quite the illicit thrill from the Snaco subtext ( ... )
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What those fics seem to ignore is that neither character is in Slytherin by mistake. The fact that they're Slytherins pretty much indicates they at least tolerate each other's company, and the company of other within their House. Did that sentence make any sense?
Oh it makes perfect sense and I agree tha it's the same thing. So basically, the writers of these fics and theories seem to have unquestioningly bought into the whole Gryffindor=Nice thing, and thus they're making Snape or Draco into a Gryffindor, because they want to think the character in question is Nice/Alright, or, they may not actually think so, but want to make him so in their fic. And so these kinds of fics/theories become hard to swallow both for those of us who don't necessarily accept Gryffindor=Nice, and those of us who don't want to see Draco/Snape "nice" (because we can love them anyway! *looks defiant*)
I think she personnaly dislikes the character too much, and for other reasons than she dislikes Snape.Not that I want to give you ( ... )
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But that's also why I don't really trust the interviews anymore. I mean in one, she says she won't reveal any pairings because "it would spoil all the fun", and only six months later she does exactly what she said she wouldn't do. But the question is, under these circumstances, how reliable are her words? On anything?
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