Don't apologize! Don't! I love it! But I hope work gets better soon. I feel guilty reaping the benefits of your bad week.
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.
And yet so far one of the problems is, of course, that few people step out of Harry's pov enough to recognize that he's escalating. In the last "Blame Game" I was in some ways most shocked by the number of people who thought Zach was at fault in the scene where Ginny ran into him on her broom because "he's an asshat." Not only is Zach just not that bad, but it's not like fanon ever seemed to see him as such itself. But in HBP we've got Harry and Ginny talking about him as an idiot and a jerk, he makes them angry, and so suddenly yeah, he was really a jerk.
With Draco, too, sometimes the people most open to his story in HBP seem people who either like the character and so looked at him closely or through rose-colored glasses, and people who never cared much about him and were neutral. It's harder to let go, imo, of the view that took Harry's hatred and created a character to match.
He's a bad parent because he doesn't make allowance for the fact that Draco's personality is very different from his own.
Yup. He seems genuinely clueless that a child is not automatically something you've got under control, you know? He tells Draco to play nice with Harry but doesn't seem to really be putting an effort into making him do that. He thinks he can spin tales of LV and the Heir and then keep Draco out of it just by saying to keep his head down.
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:37 pm (UTC)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.
And yet so far one of the problems is, of course, that few people step out of Harry's pov enough to recognize that he's escalating. In the last "Blame Game" I was in some ways most shocked by the number of people who thought Zach was at fault in the scene where Ginny ran into him on her broom because "he's an asshat." Not only is Zach just not that bad, but it's not like fanon ever seemed to see him as such itself. But in HBP we've got Harry and Ginny talking about him as an idiot and a jerk, he makes them angry, and so suddenly yeah, he was really a jerk.
With Draco, too, sometimes the people most open to his story in HBP seem people who either like the character and so looked at him closely or through rose-colored glasses, and people who never cared much about him and were neutral. It's harder to let go, imo, of the view that took Harry's hatred and created a character to match.
He's a bad parent because he doesn't make allowance for the fact that Draco's personality is very different from his own.
Yup. He seems genuinely clueless that a child is not automatically something you've got under control, you know? He tells Draco to play nice with Harry but doesn't seem to really be putting an effort into making him do that. He thinks he can spin tales of LV and the Heir and then keep Draco out of it just by saying to keep his head down.