Her amazing ability to create characters is like the one thing saving this. Because when you listen to her talk about this guy it almost sounds like she just doesn't see the obvious...but of course she created him so on some level it seems like she must see it. In the interview it's almost like she just shares his same blindspots--he himself would say that he was just led astray by love and it was all Gellert's fault and nothing to do with innately good him. Yet somehow she managed to write it so it was obvious they're both deluding themselves.
And yeah, love. This series has the weirdest view of love and yet it's supposed to be the basis of it. Yet the only kind of love that can sustain this sort of thing is not what we usually see--lots of people noticed that the book that was all about love (HBP) with the shipping was the one where everybody was the most hateful!
It explains a bit why the Malfoy story ultimately was just odd to me too. On one hand it seems like their love for each other is a redeeming characteristic, but again it's really not. They're still pretty much innately bad, but they have a trigger about love for each other, just as Snape has for Lily. In HBP I thought part of the point with Draco was that because he loved and was loved he wasn't a killer, and that made him a better person. Now it seems like he just lacked the guts and also was programmed to act on behalf of his family's wishes because of whatever his love potion smelled like. (Presumably it already smelled like Astoria back in HBP?)
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And yeah, love. This series has the weirdest view of love and yet it's supposed to be the basis of it. Yet the only kind of love that can sustain this sort of thing is not what we usually see--lots of people noticed that the book that was all about love (HBP) with the shipping was the one where everybody was the most hateful!
It explains a bit why the Malfoy story ultimately was just odd to me too. On one hand it seems like their love for each other is a redeeming characteristic, but again it's really not. They're still pretty much innately bad, but they have a trigger about love for each other, just as Snape has for Lily. In HBP I thought part of the point with Draco was that because he loved and was loved he wasn't a killer, and that made him a better person. Now it seems like he just lacked the guts and also was programmed to act on behalf of his family's wishes because of whatever his love potion smelled like. (Presumably it already smelled like Astoria back in HBP?)