Yay! Somebody else who loved Signs and Wonders! I was in full battle-mode after that ep and I said at the time that I really *liked* O'Connor and Gracie, flawed as they were. What sort of went through the whole episode was that they did love each other, even if they kept hurting each other. But people really didn't want to give them credit for anything.
What was great about it was just what you said--O'Connor wasn't suddenly redeemed, it just turned out hey, just because he's wrong about one thing doesn't mean he's wrong about another. When I think of Draco being "redeemed" in canon (using the word reluctantly) that's usually as far as I go. Not that he's suddenly heroic or sweet or whatever--which people seem to want to jump to--just that the accusations toward him completely overshoot the mark. It just seems like that's his main power in canon, that whatever is going on Harry will suspect him even when he's literally got nothing to do with it. And then later on he'll remember things wrong so that he had something to do with it.
Then I'm going to write my daily rant about how hard JKR sucks if she doesn't let Draco sex-up the Patil twins before letting the terrorists win.
LOL! This should be our new motto: Draco Fans Let The Terrorists Win!
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Re: some ramble
Date: 2004-12-13 09:16 am (UTC)What was great about it was just what you said--O'Connor wasn't suddenly redeemed, it just turned out hey, just because he's wrong about one thing doesn't mean he's wrong about another. When I think of Draco being "redeemed" in canon (using the word reluctantly) that's usually as far as I go. Not that he's suddenly heroic or sweet or whatever--which people seem to want to jump to--just that the accusations toward him completely overshoot the mark. It just seems like that's his main power in canon, that whatever is going on Harry will suspect him even when he's literally got nothing to do with it. And then later on he'll remember things wrong so that he had something to do with it.
Then I'm going to write my daily rant about how hard JKR sucks if she doesn't let Draco sex-up the Patil twins before letting the terrorists win.
LOL! This should be our new motto: Draco Fans Let The Terrorists Win!