It's harder to describe than that, but clearly something the author has always seen as fundamental to the character, which she described as a "natural" Occlumens because of the repression he practices in order to be what he is.
And the interesting thing about this is that everyone already knew it prior to HBP, even the people who claim to hate him. Because otherwise, no one would have bought the bathroom scene, it would have been another H/G thing where people would go on and on about how OOC the whole thing was. But I've yet to see one single person actually say that they thought Draco's arc was unbelievable or badly done. Brilliantly subliminally planted on JKR's part, actually.
I dunno,just a funny note that probably doesn't have much to do with anything. Before HBP, it was really hard to find a fic in whch Harry bottomed. Afterwards, though, for a while there, it almost became hard to find one where he topped or where they each didn't do both. Which is probably a sort of reaction to Draco's having a plotline in HBP. There's this strange connection that JKR has drawn between Ginny and Draco, though, in terms of their plots and in terms of needing to be 'seen' by Harry for what they are. And just in a lot of other ways. And I can't think why she's done that, makes H/D all the easier to see.
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And the interesting thing about this is that everyone already knew it prior to HBP, even the people who claim to hate him. Because otherwise, no one would have bought the bathroom scene, it would have been another H/G thing where people would go on and on about how OOC the whole thing was. But I've yet to see one single person actually say that they thought Draco's arc was unbelievable or badly done. Brilliantly subliminally planted on JKR's part, actually.
I dunno,just a funny note that probably doesn't have much to do with anything. Before HBP, it was really hard to find a fic in whch Harry bottomed. Afterwards, though, for a while there, it almost became hard to find one where he topped or where they each didn't do both. Which is probably a sort of reaction to Draco's having a plotline in HBP. There's this strange connection that JKR has drawn between Ginny and Draco, though, in terms of their plots and in terms of needing to be 'seen' by Harry for what they are. And just in a lot of other ways. And I can't think why she's done that, makes H/D all the easier to see.