that cinderella complex & a little malfoy moment

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 8580

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Meredith Wilson 
<aviationoutreachcoord at m...> wrote:
> 
> I have always had an orphan
> thing - Annie, Oliver, Anee of Green Gables, Francis Burnett books, 
you get
> the picture.  I always imagined myself to be the kid who's had a 
hard life
> but has a heart of gold and it works out for the best in the end.
> 

Oh, *definitely* - and I think that's why I picked up SS in the first 
place - I love all those stories (and you can add Huck Finn to the 
list as well for the "classic US story) - my favorite fairy tale has 
always been Cinderella (although reading Confessions of an Ugly 
Stepsister, which I was talking about yesterday on Peg's Wild Swans 
list gave me a great new perspective on that)

(and on a semi-related note, bringing this back to the Character 
Assasination (um, I mean discussion) of the Week - am I the only one 
who pictures Draco Malfoy as looking exactly the same as I picture 
Colin Craven from Secret Garden - and behaving more or less the same 
wa, too (at least before Colin gets to experience the magic of the 
garden) (and I also suspect that Colin Creevy's name owes more than a 
little to Mary Lennox's cousin...))