Every day in every way I find myself loving your brain more and more.
Also I was going to quote Philip Larkin but Black Dog beat me to the punch. (pfwa. Outdone at every turn! I shall have vengeance!) So I will utilise pop culture and say Everything's wrong, wrong, wrong... but that's all right.
I really do love the family dynamics of the HP books. Dynastic madness is so much fun. (It's a reason I read the Forsyte Saga and hardly noticed the politics: I was just marveling at the way individuals reacted to each other - and loving Soames so much ohmygod.) I think it's deliberate, and I think things will be fixed - but not *wholly* fixed, and I wouldn't want them to be.
The entire Percy thing made me happy because I thought it should have debunked the perfect Weasleys myth, but I also want him back because one of the few nice things the twins do is shove him into his jumper and clearly want him for Christmas in CoS - so different from their behaviour in HBP. I don't think Percy and the twins are ever going to be absolutely OK, but I do want them to find some kind of peace. And resentment.
It's also one of the things that makes me react badly to people calling Draco an abused child, because my immediate response is that 'He's not abused - unless everybody is' and yet he is badly messed up by his upbringing. But I love that HBP confirmed what always seemed obvious to me - that Draco loves his family, that Narcissa loves her son.
Also one of the more interesting familial parallels to me, just btw, is Narcissa/Regulus and Sirius/Bellatrix. Because they do seem to be the sets of siblings who, well. Sirius and Bellatrix both obviously emotionally disconnected from their family, either to follow the Dark Lord or the Way of James Potter. And they're both unhappy and very not mentally balanced. Of course, of the more connected ones, Regulus is extremely dead, but Narcissa is alive, saner and still fighting for her son.
Families are cool! And I kind of want to see you and musesfool sit and talk about the Blacks, and this comment has no real resolution, but much like families, goes on and on painfully. With love!
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Date: 2005-12-17 06:34 pm (UTC)Also I was going to quote Philip Larkin but Black Dog beat me to the punch. (pfwa. Outdone at every turn! I shall have vengeance!) So I will utilise pop culture and say Everything's wrong, wrong, wrong... but that's all right.
I really do love the family dynamics of the HP books. Dynastic madness is so much fun. (It's a reason I read the Forsyte Saga and hardly noticed the politics: I was just marveling at the way individuals reacted to each other - and loving Soames so much ohmygod.) I think it's deliberate, and I think things will be fixed - but not *wholly* fixed, and I wouldn't want them to be.
The entire Percy thing made me happy because I thought it should have debunked the perfect Weasleys myth, but I also want him back because one of the few nice things the twins do is shove him into his jumper and clearly want him for Christmas in CoS - so different from their behaviour in HBP. I don't think Percy and the twins are ever going to be absolutely OK, but I do want them to find some kind of peace. And resentment.
It's also one of the things that makes me react badly to people calling Draco an abused child, because my immediate response is that 'He's not abused - unless everybody is' and yet he is badly messed up by his upbringing. But I love that HBP confirmed what always seemed obvious to me - that Draco loves his family, that Narcissa loves her son.
Also one of the more interesting familial parallels to me, just btw, is Narcissa/Regulus and Sirius/Bellatrix. Because they do seem to be the sets of siblings who, well. Sirius and Bellatrix both obviously emotionally disconnected from their family, either to follow the Dark Lord or the Way of James Potter. And they're both unhappy and very not mentally balanced. Of course, of the more connected ones, Regulus is extremely dead, but Narcissa is alive, saner and still fighting for her son.
Families are cool! And I kind of want to see you and