[HPforGrownups] Re: Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. Yet Sympathetic. And Dead, Too.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 124466

> > Elkins:
> > huge snip
> > <even more snipped>
> > I mean, even Draco himself <snip> is hip to this dynamic.  
> > Just look at how he responds to Pansy in _PoA,_ when she asks him
> > if his arm hurts.  <snip>  A macho "nah, not really, don't worry
> > about it" just isn't going to win you any eros points from an 
> > adolescent girl, unless there's one heck of a wince accompanying 
> > it.  And Draco knows that.  To get the adolescent girls crushing
> > on you, you have to be hurt...yet still doing okay with it.
> <snip> 


For me, "Draco" is spelled W-U-S-S.  And that's why I really don't
like his character.  I'm amazed at the posts I see from people on
other sites who think he's funny and witty.  He's a kid whose mental
age is about 7 or 8, his method of getting what he wants is to moan
and whimper, which probably still works with his mother but drives
his father to distraction, wondering if the kid is ever going to grow
up and why didn't we have a second child just for back-up?

I prefer characters who have some backbone; I never liked hurt-males
because even as a teenager I knew those guys were high maintenance. 
The world was all about THEM and their needs, and unless you had a
full-blown crush on one of them, it was pretty easy to spot as an
observer.  (And frankly my junior high and high schools had the
fewest attractive guys per square foot than any others in North
America, so that helped too.)

Magda


		
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