I originally f'locked this out of habit, but figured I might as well leave it open. We'll see how that goes... Why are you afraid? I never f'lock, but may be less people read my lj, so I haven't been flamed yet. I don't think you will regret not f'locking it, not only your friends will be able to comment, which is good, and in the worst case, you can always do it afterwards. I thought writing something and posting a link on hp_essays. Err... will it make me Rita Sceeter version of popular (the way people become after she writes about them)? I still think there are many sane people in our fandom.
It's great. It's different than making us identify with him because we fear he'll be discovered. We've crossed into admiring his skills in protecting himself and getting away with something. Since the last thing JKR wanted was to make us identify too much with, let alone admire, Malfoys, if would have been very surprised, had she written anything like that.
Narcissa's calculated moment of defiance isn't about survival so much as the short-sighted act of a desperate mother. (Short-sighted only because she just wants to get in to get to Draco; it's not a gambit for some wider agenda. It was very foolish, if you think about it for a moment. Iirc, she lied only since she wanted to find out quicker whether Draco was alive & in case he was to protect him. She didn't think Harry would win, right? Or did she, after seeing his miraculous ability to survive again and again? Imagine V understanding she lied to him about this crucial fact & winning in the end. It would have been like the proverbial last straw, imo. In short, RIP Malfoys. Why not tell him the truth, so that Harry would quickly be killed again, and then go to the castle? IITS rules!
I wind up thinking that's the answer to their whole storyline, that the author!god just twinkled and said, "Oh, I don't think their soul is so damaged--it amuses me to let them live." It's like we wind up with a story that to me seems like it could have been an actually compelling subplot and instead it's purposefully not. The problem is I can't imagine alternative storyline for Malfoys. Switching to D's side? Running away from both V and the Order? Out of their own house? None of it seems believable. They seem completely trapped to me. As for "Oh, I don't think their soul is so damaged", I understand that about Draco and even Narcissa, who let's not forget supported V and didn't care too much about killings until her own family was in danger, while being an adult and in her own mind. But Lucius?! The major villain (except V) in CoS? DE? Torturer of Muggles at the QWC in GoF? I would understand, if JKR killed him somehow Lupin or Snape style (I mean by V) to solve this problem. I remember fandom being certain about his death in DH. His being alive just seemed very strange to me.
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Date: 2007-09-26 02:03 am (UTC)Why are you afraid? I never f'lock, but may be less people read my lj, so I haven't been flamed yet. I don't think you will regret not f'locking it, not only your friends will be able to comment, which is good, and in the worst case, you can always do it afterwards. I thought writing something and posting a link on hp_essays. Err... will it make me Rita Sceeter version of popular (the way people become after she writes about them)? I still think there are many sane people in our fandom.
It's great. It's different than making us identify with him because we fear he'll be discovered. We've crossed into admiring his skills in protecting himself and getting away with something.
Since the last thing JKR wanted was to make us identify too much with, let alone admire, Malfoys, if would have been very surprised, had she written anything like that.
Narcissa's calculated moment of defiance isn't about survival so much as the short-sighted act of a desperate mother. (Short-sighted only because she just wants to get in to get to Draco; it's not a gambit for some wider agenda.
It was very foolish, if you think about it for a moment. Iirc, she lied only since she wanted to find out quicker whether Draco was alive & in case he was to protect him. She didn't think Harry would win, right? Or did she, after seeing his miraculous ability to survive again and again? Imagine V understanding she lied to him about this crucial fact & winning in the end. It would have been like the proverbial last straw, imo. In short, RIP Malfoys. Why not tell him the truth, so that Harry would quickly be killed again, and then go to the castle? IITS rules!
I wind up thinking that's the answer to their whole storyline, that the author!god just twinkled and said, "Oh, I don't think their soul is so damaged--it amuses me to let them live." It's like we wind up with a story that to me seems like it could have been an actually compelling subplot and instead it's purposefully not.
The problem is I can't imagine alternative storyline for Malfoys. Switching to D's side? Running away from both V and the Order? Out of their own house? None of it seems believable. They seem completely trapped to me.
As for "Oh, I don't think their soul is so damaged", I understand that about Draco and even Narcissa, who let's not forget supported V and didn't care too much about killings until her own family was in danger, while being an adult and in her own mind. But Lucius?! The major villain (except V) in CoS? DE? Torturer of Muggles at the QWC in GoF? I would understand, if JKR killed him somehow Lupin or Snape style (I mean by V) to solve this problem. I remember fandom being certain about his death in DH. His being alive just seemed very strange to me.