I think the way people have usually dealt with the Draco pov during HBP is to have it be [annoyingly] meta, where he's like, consciously (and sometimes drolly) aware that Potter's 'stalking' him & sometimes he sort of rolls his eyes & tells him to stop or deal with his little 'problem' or whatever. Which is actually hilarious when I think about it. I think there's a limit to how much Draco could've noticed-- I mean, wasn't Harry wearing his Invisibility Cloak or at least trying to be slealthy? Plus Draco -was- preoccupied so it would've been at the back of his mind as a niggling disturbance/paranoia rather than some sort of bland 'oh, that Potter & his little obsession with me' thing. He'd be -worried-, yeah, but like, no one makes Draco worried, because THAT WOULDN'T BE COOL ENOUGH, now would it :))
The bathroom scene [not to mention the train-stomping scene], at least, shows that Draco -is- on the edge and continues to be so from beginning to end, and also it's closer the surface. It's like, in OoTP it was Harry losing it & becoming hair-trigger, but in HBP it's definitely Draco (and yeah, um, no one runs with that, but then they barely did even with Harry... must... keep... characters... 100% sympathetic at all times!). So actually I can see how a flustered, distracted Draco would be more likely to snap more & get angry/out-of-control more easily & that snippet of self-awareness could've had him avoid contact with Harry [not to mention relating to why he'd dropped Quidditch]. There's no way Draco would 'happily let go' of anything, definitely :D :D Ahahah, that cheers me up.
See, this sort of re-evaluation is totally why I made my post-- 'cause my relationship with H/D is all about re-accessment & growth just as their relationship with each other sort of ...um, mirrors that. And it weirds me out a bit that most people seem to be so rock-solid one way or the other! :>
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:45 pm (UTC)The bathroom scene [not to mention the train-stomping scene], at least, shows that Draco -is- on the edge and continues to be so from beginning to end, and also it's closer the surface. It's like, in OoTP it was Harry losing it & becoming hair-trigger, but in HBP it's definitely Draco (and yeah, um, no one runs with that, but then they barely did even with Harry... must... keep... characters... 100% sympathetic at all times!). So actually I can see how a flustered, distracted Draco would be more likely to snap more & get angry/out-of-control more easily & that snippet of self-awareness could've had him avoid contact with Harry [not to mention relating to why he'd dropped Quidditch]. There's no way Draco would 'happily let go' of anything, definitely :D :D Ahahah, that cheers me up.
See, this sort of re-evaluation is totally why I made my post-- 'cause my relationship with H/D is all about re-accessment & growth just as their relationship with each other sort of ...um, mirrors that. And it weirds me out a bit that most people seem to be so rock-solid one way or the other! :>