Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. Yet Sympathetic. And Dead, Too.

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>>Lupinlore:
>To answer and expand on my own post (and to get myself into even 
deeper hot water with a lot of the women on the list) I just 
remembered JKR's interview where she warned her female readers to 
(paraphrase) "beware the Bad Boy."
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>I'm guessing that JKR had some experience of this phenomenon in her 
first marriage, and that is what she is trying to warn her readers 
off of when she tells them it's a bad idea to be attracted to Draco 
or Snape or males like them.  

Betsy:
And yet, the entire point of Elkins' post is that JKR does an 
absolute superb job in making Draco attractive - through Hurt/Comfort 
and also "Sympathy for the Devil."  And Elkins demonstrates that JKR 
knows exactly what she's doing when she writes Draco's scenes. So JKR 
is saying one thing in the books and a completely different thing in 
her interviews. (Prime reason I take her interviews with such a giant 
block of salt.) No, the intense attraction amongst the fans for "bad 
boys" like Snape and Draco and Sirius are totally the result of JKR's 
prose.  

Betsy, who actually found out about HP4GU by reading this very post 
of Elkins and joined soon after.  (And who really, really hopes that 
Draco won't die.)