Whenever JKR writes Harry making the "choice" to do right, it always fell a little flat. It wasn't as if it was ever in his character or worldview to help the man who killed his parents. Because it's all so uncomplicated for him, he's internally relatively content. He angsts about things that are happening, not about himself. Snape on the other hand is a seething tangle of unhappiness and guilt that Dumbledore takes shameless advantage of and no one else trusts. And then he has people like me torturing him.
JKR never made Draco very interesting or complex. Fandom did that, and fandom could do that because he didn't show how low he could really sink until the sixth book. Since I didn't discover fandom until after book 6 had come out and was already firmly convinced Malfoy was a cowardly little snot, I found fanon Draco hopelessly ooc. I make an exception for Maya, because her writing is just that damn good.
He did feel he was wrong, a bit, because he tends to think subconsciously that anything that goes wrong is his fault. Ginny takes advantage of this. This subplot wasn't supposed to be satisfying. It's supposed to illustrate that Harry is in some ways as unhealthy in how he interacts with people as Snape is. Still, I don't think she's pure evil anymore than fanon Draco, just very young, thoughtless, and self indulgent.
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Date: 2009-10-24 11:44 pm (UTC)JKR never made Draco very interesting or complex. Fandom did that, and fandom could do that because he didn't show how low he could really sink until the sixth book. Since I didn't discover fandom until after book 6 had come out and was already firmly convinced Malfoy was a cowardly little snot, I found fanon Draco hopelessly ooc. I make an exception for Maya, because her writing is just that damn good.
He did feel he was wrong, a bit, because he tends to think subconsciously that anything that goes wrong is his fault. Ginny takes advantage of this. This subplot wasn't supposed to be satisfying. It's supposed to illustrate that Harry is in some ways as unhealthy in how he interacts with people as Snape is. Still, I don't think she's pure evil anymore than fanon Draco, just very young, thoughtless, and self indulgent.