Wow, I hate Dumbledore with the intensity of a thousand suns going supernova. I'm not sure that I subconsciously crave the absolute power he wields so irresponsibly throughout the series, though! I like a nice, quiet, sensible life. ;)
I find that the character I feel most irrationally about (because my DumbleHate is rational! Really! It is!) is Lucius. He's deeply superficial, wearing masks and throwing up facades, yet no-one seems to really know what's going on behind his disguises. He often comes across as petty, bigoted and smug, which does him no favors. He clearly hasn't prepared his son for the realities of dealing with Voldemort; considering Draco is his sole heir, such negligence in training makes no sense to me. I can't get a grasp of Lucius' character, and that mutability INFURIATES me.
Yet he's one of my favorite HP characters! I adore him and get such a kick out of him, but I also can't stand him. I completely understand why certain segments of the fandom get into such extreme fits of hate over him (and I love it when they cry, I really do!).
I don't feel excessively irritated when he gets fangirled in other quarters as this Uber-Sadistic Dom or Superfly Pimp...it's more angsty disappointment, a sense that people are mistaking the mask for the man. But all Lucius gives us are masks, so I've no right to piss on other people's parades when they choose to take him at face value.
I consider myself an upfront, what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of person, so it wouldn't surprise me if my attraction/repulsion to Lucius was linked to repressed aspects of myself that are constantly shifting, petty-minded and self-absorbed. Oh, the shame. ;)
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Date: 2005-12-13 04:31 pm (UTC)I find that the character I feel most irrationally about (because my DumbleHate is rational! Really! It is!) is Lucius. He's deeply superficial, wearing masks and throwing up facades, yet no-one seems to really know what's going on behind his disguises. He often comes across as petty, bigoted and smug, which does him no favors. He clearly hasn't prepared his son for the realities of dealing with Voldemort; considering Draco is his sole heir, such negligence in training makes no sense to me. I can't get a grasp of Lucius' character, and that mutability INFURIATES me.
Yet he's one of my favorite HP characters! I adore him and get such a kick out of him, but I also can't stand him. I completely understand why certain segments of the fandom get into such extreme fits of hate over him (and I love it when they cry, I really do!).
I don't feel excessively irritated when he gets fangirled in other quarters as this Uber-Sadistic Dom or Superfly Pimp...it's more angsty disappointment, a sense that people are mistaking the mask for the man. But all Lucius gives us are masks, so I've no right to piss on other people's parades when they choose to take him at face value.
I consider myself an upfront, what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of person, so it wouldn't surprise me if my attraction/repulsion to Lucius was linked to repressed aspects of myself that are constantly shifting, petty-minded and self-absorbed. Oh, the shame. ;)