Eh, I think mostly Draco fans seem to think she doesn't like him given to the criticism of him and of his fans she's often done in interviews. Please don't take this the wrong way, I think she can criticise away to her content. It just seems fairly obvious that if she takes a public position about Draco fans Draco fans are going to absorb input and feedback. I confess to laughing when she said "Don't go for the bad guy," and I don't think she has an agenda, I just think she seems to think of people in terms of clichès for whatever reason.
I also think this is the controversy SM was talking about in her post. I don't doubt any character has fans or antifans; fandoms are brought together by interest in a source that's made of many elements, and some of us are going to like element A and dislike element B which happens to be the one another fan likes, so discussion ensues. But in the case of Draco it's not the typical controversy his character and textual story raises that's being discussed here, it's the one created by the huge fan response he got and the questioning of that fan response as disproportioned. I personally wandered off HPfGU after a thread about the evils of Ron, but neither Ron's status in the books neither his fanbase were being questioned. It was the text that was debated, not the ethical or social or political implications of his having a fanbase. So while I'll give it to you that Snape's a more ambiguous character (textual quality) I think Draco is a more controversial one (meta quality).
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Date: 2004-12-02 01:50 am (UTC)I also think this is the controversy SM was talking about in her post. I don't doubt any character has fans or antifans; fandoms are brought together by interest in a source that's made of many elements, and some of us are going to like element A and dislike element B which happens to be the one another fan likes, so discussion ensues. But in the case of Draco it's not the typical controversy his character and textual story raises that's being discussed here, it's the one created by the huge fan response he got and the questioning of that fan response as disproportioned. I personally wandered off HPfGU after a thread about the evils of Ron, but neither Ron's status in the books neither his fanbase were being questioned. It was the text that was debated, not the ethical or social or political implications of his having a fanbase. So while I'll give it to you that Snape's a more ambiguous character (textual quality) I think Draco is a more controversial one (meta quality).