Draco Draco Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 34014

The following contains a thought which fought it's way out of my 
brain half-dressed.  Sorry; I couldn't stop it!  

heidi wrote:
> And I agree with the person who said that Draco (or, to be precise, 
> Hermione or Draco) would have to go through a sea change before 
> finding the other to be intriguing on a romantic level. 
> 
> But that's happened in literature before...

[and then Heidi uses one of my favorite sea-change-containing 
literary romances ever, _Pride & Prejudice_, to illustrate her point.]

> In other words, there's three books left. There are at least 2 and 
a 
> half books in which Draco has the opportunity to face some demons, 
> fight some battles, and see for himself if he wants to capitulate 
and 
> become a wothless fingerpuppet of evil, or if he wants to, even for 
> completely selfish reasons, choose otherwise. And as part of that 
> choice-making process, I hope he takes a look at his prejudices, 
the 
> way we've sort of seen Ron doing (at least re: Hagrid and Giants) 
and 
> grows beyond them the way Mr Draco, I mean Mr Darcy did... 

But...but...but...Mr. Darcy was The Hero of _Pride & Prejudice_, and 
Draco is NOT The Hero of the Harry Potter stories.  It's true that 
Draco *could* drastically change in future books, but on my own 
behalf and only in a speculatory way, I don't think I'd believe it 
unless the change was given more page space than Draco, as the B-Plot 
nemesis, ought to get.  Which, I suppose, is the reason that I don't 
think that Draco will undergo enough of a change to become the kind 
of person Hermione would fall for.

Oddly enough, when I think of it that way, I have to admit that while 
I don't think it will happen in canon, it's altogether possible that 
a talented fanfic writer could devote countless pages to Draco as The 
Hero and make such a sea change plausible.

I really like the term 'sea change' applied to characterization.

And now my thoughts will go back in the house, put some clothes on, 
and come out later better able to make a coherent point.

Mahoney
thinking that the 'no coffee after noon' rule has got to go