[HPforGrownups] Re: that cinderella complex & a little malfoy moment

[Meredith Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 8581



** --- 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)

Right!   Huck Finn is a good one to add.
 
** (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...))

Loving Secret Garden as much as I do, I'm surprised I hadn't thought of the
Colin Creevey/Colin Craven thing.  

I think Draco's snotty in a different way though.  I think they're both
bitter and angry but Colin lashes out at everyone and reforms pretty easily,
while Draco is much more calculated.  His placement of comments is usually
to the benfit of himself and quite the opposite for someone else - usually
Harry.  Plus, Draco can put out a sugar-sweet kiss up front if he needs to
for Snape or any other authority.  Hmm.  Something to think about.

Mer