[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame & A Taste of Moody

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 39144

>In a message dated 5/27/2002 11:30:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>cindysphynx at comcast.net writes:
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><< But, I fear, I'm not seeing Redeemable!Draco.  I think JKR is
> writing Draco as a flat cariacature with no redeeming
> characteristics at all at the moment.  That's how I see him,
> anyway.   >>

Malfoy is Mabel.  Or possibly Veronica.

No, really.  Come on, doesn't anyone else remember those delicious Girls'
Boarding School stories we... well, I, at any rate, used to read?  Stories
in which Our Heroine (Pippa, or Daisy, or something similarly wholesome),
the poverty-stricken but noble-in-character scholarship pupil arrived at a
Jolly Good School and was promptly picked on by The Nasty Little Rich Girl
(Veronica or Mabel) because she had No Money and came from a Poor Family.
Our Heroine underwent many trials, petty nastinesses of all kinds were
inflicted by Mabel (or Veronica), but Virtue Triumphed In The End.  Usually
there was a Poignant Scene in which Our Heroine came to Mabel's (or
Veronica's) rescue, and Mabel (or Veronica) made a tearful recantation and
Avowal of Friendship.

Look, it works when you're nine, okay?  I loved those books.

Malfoy is Mabel.

Pen

[Anyone who does remember That Sort of Book with any affection should
hasten to a performance of "Daisy Pulls It Off", which is an absolute gem.]