Actually, I think we're saying that *no* character has the whole fandom against him or her, especially in this fandom that's so big that nobody even has to come in contact with people who think about their character. Personally, somebody claiming "everybody" hates a character always makes me assume that the person is probably the type of person who likes to pretend they're under attack before they even say anything. The type who says, "I know I'll be flamed for this but...I think Ron's a good friend!" or, "I know I'll be flamed for this but...I thought Harry was a jerk in OotP!"
I've come across certain *people* who hate Draco with a passion, but I don't think there are as many of them as people who hate, say, Ron with the same passion because I think canon takes care of most hate somebody might feel. I'm not really up on exactly how Ron is hated or anything, but I just feel like he probably inspires a lot more of that sort of thing than Draco does.
Where Draco does step into the limelight as Mr. Controversial, though, is when JKR for some reason starts bringing him up in interviews for whatever reason she does. I don't know how aware of the more negative interpretations of Hermione, but the one time she seemed to want to reject a fan interpretation of her it was to say that of course she would never date Draco...which made it seem like that idea was more widespread than I thought!
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Date: 2004-12-01 04:57 pm (UTC)I've come across certain *people* who hate Draco with a passion, but I don't think there are as many of them as people who hate, say, Ron with the same passion because I think canon takes care of most hate somebody might feel. I'm not really up on exactly how Ron is hated or anything, but I just feel like he probably inspires a lot more of that sort of thing than Draco does.
Where Draco does step into the limelight as Mr. Controversial, though, is when JKR for some reason starts bringing him up in interviews for whatever reason she does. I don't know how aware of the more negative interpretations of Hermione, but the one time she seemed to want to reject a fan interpretation of her it was to say that of course she would never date Draco...which made it seem like that idea was more widespread than I thought!