[HPforGrownups] OoP: Abused!Draco, Hermione, Snape

[Melanie Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 67400

Jenifer wrote:
>I wonder if the abused idea stemmed from the way Lucius Malfoy was
>portrayed in the Chamber of Secrets movie.  The actor had
>deliberately put the abusive, mean father spirit into his acting.

In my case, at least, it's not movie contamination at all; I was 
delighted that TCWMNBN2 played Lucius and Draco's relationship 
precisely as I had always imagined it based on that scene in the 
books.  (Non-canon, but: the actors, in the DVD extras, confirm that 
they're playing the relationship that way.  If JKR intended for 
Draco's home life to be perfectly happy, I imagine she'd have said 
something to someone - so I feel relatively safe in guessing that 
either abused!Draco isn't far from the truth, or his home life 
doesn't matter at all to JKR one way or the other.)

 
My reply:  I completely agree with you!  I am amazed that people don't see the abused Draco.  His father was cruel to him, and he was also very intent to make him no that he is not living up to his expectations for him.  
 
To me when a man is  clearly cruel and belittles his son it's abuse...maybe not physical abuse but psychological abuse is just the same.
~Melanie
 


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