SHIP: Glaring and D/H

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13914

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a... wrote:
 > > 
Amy: Well said, Naama, and also, it's not glaring per se but the 
> immediate  context thereof.  Glaring at Draco when he's said 
something cutting  just means "Draco, you're an A-1 jerk."  Scowling 
when Ron has just  given Fleur a compliment is a different matter.  
 > > Foul! Foul!  Show 'er the red card, ref!  (Or at least the 
> > yellow...Ebony, you get off with a warning.)
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Cassie also cries "Foul!" Hermione hardly limits her glaring at Ron 
to the times when he's goggling at Fleur. She glares at him * plenty* 
in Books 1- 3, when there is no Fleur, not even counting the times he 
makes her cry.
> 
> 
Heidi: And here, I cry "Foul!" Honestly, Hermione's glares at Draco 
could 
> mean at least 4 different things:
> 1. You're a bigoted git and I wish you'd go away.
> 2. Why do you act like a bigoted git in public when I know that you 
> don't act that way when other Slytherins aren't around.
> 3. You really hate ron, don't you? Did he mess up your 
fingerpainting 
> at Wizarding Nursery School?
> or 4. How can someone so completely cute and sexy be such a bigoted 
> git?
> 
> I'm sure others can come up with other explanations. Cass?
> 
* is ROTFL about the cute and sexy business.* I suppose it depends 
whether you hold out hope for Draco's redemption or not -- whether 
you would prefer to see him as a purely evil little cardboard cutout 
with no depth; or are hoping for a bit more in the way of levels from 
him in canon. For some reason, the R/H ers seem to hate him more than 
the H/H ers (I know, I know MASS generalization, always exceptions, 
etc.) -- perhaps because he's so very unpleasant to Ron? I mean, he 
*hates* Harry, but, in a yuck sort of way, respects and fears him. 
Ron, he just has withering and total contempt for. *realizes she's 
really selling Draco here* 
I also can't get with whoever said (Naama?) D/H was like a romance 
between a black woman and a man in the Ku Klux Klan. I don't agree 
for the reason that Draco is a CHILD, he's a LITTLE BOY, and children 
are mutable. The actions he takes in the next few years will 
determine what kind of person he turns out to be -- as far as I'm 
concerned, he hasn't *done* anything unforgivable yet, even if the 
attitudes he espouses are repellent. And *cough* Snape. Nuff said.

Cassie

NB: Hey, Amy gave me fifty bucks to make DS R/H and Penny gave me 
fifty bucks to make it H/H. <vbeg> A cottage industry. Amy, for sixty 
bucks you get a date with Lupin, how's that?!