Interesting analogy as always. Can't agree more with how the Slytherins are like Nazi youths on the surface and the Jews in the core. My biggest concern though, is whether JKR herself reads them so herself-- if Draco and co. are nothing but targets for her to vent her childhood anger, then... Of course, there are enough signs in OOTP for us to be reasonably optimistic. Phineas (who's my fav character), sorting hat song and Hermione's musing aside, I actually think Percy, Fudge, Neville were encouraging examples too. Because, for them there were all these "little signs" in book 1-4 that they'd turn the way they did in OOTP, just like those 'ambiguous' Draco moments that redemption!Draco believers draw on. You know how non-believers have always dissed those moments as 'too vague to be meaningful evidences'. Well, same could be said about those signs foreshadowing turning-against family!Percy, head-in-the-dune!Fudge, and fighter!Neville right =P?
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Date: 2003-07-06 12:05 pm (UTC)Of course, there are enough signs in OOTP for us to be reasonably optimistic. Phineas (who's my fav character), sorting hat song and Hermione's musing aside, I actually think Percy, Fudge, Neville were encouraging examples too. Because, for them there were all these "little signs" in book 1-4 that they'd turn the way they did in OOTP, just like those 'ambiguous' Draco moments that redemption!Draco believers draw on. You know how non-believers have always dissed those moments as 'too vague to be meaningful evidences'. Well, same could be said about those signs foreshadowing turning-against family!Percy, head-in-the-dune!Fudge, and fighter!Neville right =P?