characters we see not much of, and only one side of, but that side is so extreme or intriguing or telling that we could go on forever guessing at the depth and facets of their character (Draco
This is really, really helping me putting the finger in the way I have always found Draco a satisfactory character in the canon, not flat but rather minor, and at the same time, incredibly compelling. He intrigues the rare times he appears, and then you go back and check the text and find many little details and try to put them together, in and out of authorial intent. You bring a lot of yourself in your reading of Malfoy because it's unavoidable seen how he's a strange mixture of archetype and contradictions, but this seems the opposite of flat, to me.
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Date: 2004-09-14 03:38 pm (UTC)This is really, really helping me putting the finger in the way I have always found Draco a satisfactory character in the canon, not flat but rather minor, and at the same time, incredibly compelling. He intrigues the rare times he appears, and then you go back and check the text and find many little details and try to put them together, in and out of authorial intent. You bring a lot of yourself in your reading of Malfoy because it's unavoidable seen how he's a strange mixture of archetype and contradictions, but this seems the opposite of flat, to me.
Thanks!