I really did sort of spam you, didn't I? *facepalms* I had one of those weeks that was a cross between Hurry-Up-And-Wait and Huge-Effort-For-Nothing (the verdict is still out) and I just sort of threw myself into LJ with a vengeance when it ended. Better than turning to drink! But maybe with an unusually low signal-to-noise ratio in my comments. :)
Anyway, I think we definitely see the Remembrall scene in the same way. And it was interesting that your latest DTCL post sort of put the broom incident in the same perspective -- Draco's just being grabby because that's how he shows his interest, it's not like he's going to snap the broom in the middle of the Entrance Hall. Lucius may have forgot to tell him what to do when this thing doesn't work. But all the sinister spin, here and in the flying lesson, is Harry's projection, and he immediately puts Draco in an impossible position.
Of course it gets worse, and eventually becomes genuinely nasty, as the series goes on. It's kind of fascinating to watch Harry escalate minor awkwardnesses into permanent bad feelings, with Draco, with Zach, maybe even in a sense with Snape. But you get the feeling that most of Harry's adversaries get to a point where they're thinking "WTF? You're taking this way too seriously!"
You don't want to make it all a Daddy issue, but damn it makes sense given the Lucius we've seen . . . he's totally missing some of the other core Lucius qualities. And Lucius can't teach him because he kind of sucks that way.
Yeah, and this might make even the parenting issue less sinister and more ordinarily tragic. Lucius isn't necessarily a bad parent because he's a bad person. He's a bad parent because he doesn't make allowance for the fact that Draco's personality is very different from his own. He thinks he can mold him, instead of adapting his approach to who Draco is. It's the old tabula rasa fallacy, just ordinary interpersonal stupidity.
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Date: 2006-12-17 03:03 pm (UTC)Anyway, I think we definitely see the Remembrall scene in the same way. And it was interesting that your latest DTCL post sort of put the broom incident in the same perspective -- Draco's just being grabby because that's how he shows his interest, it's not like he's going to snap the broom in the middle of the Entrance Hall. Lucius may have forgot to tell him what to do when this thing doesn't work. But all the sinister spin, here and in the flying lesson, is Harry's projection, and he immediately puts Draco in an impossible position.
Of course it gets worse, and eventually becomes genuinely nasty, as the series goes on. It's kind of fascinating to watch Harry escalate minor awkwardnesses into permanent bad feelings, with Draco, with Zach, maybe even in a sense with Snape. But you get the feeling that most of Harry's adversaries get to a point where they're thinking "WTF? You're taking this way too seriously!"
You don't want to make it all a Daddy issue, but damn it makes sense given the Lucius we've seen . . . he's totally missing some of the other core Lucius qualities. And Lucius can't teach him because he kind of sucks that way.
Yeah, and this might make even the parenting issue less sinister and more ordinarily tragic. Lucius isn't necessarily a bad parent because he's a bad person. He's a bad parent because he doesn't make allowance for the fact that Draco's personality is very different from his own. He thinks he can mold him, instead of adapting his approach to who Draco is. It's the old tabula rasa fallacy, just ordinary interpersonal stupidity.