Pansy Parkinson (Was: House characteristics)

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No: HPFGUIDX 150633

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
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> Betsy Hp:
> At one point JKR said that all children have experienced a Pansy 
or 
> a Draco in their lives, and frankly, it confused me.  Or, not so 
> much confused me, because I thought I knew what she was getting 
at, 
> but made me think that she feels she's been clearer on 
> Pansy's "type" than she actually has been.
> 
> Pansy is supposed to be the "mean girl".  And if this were really 
a 
> school days genre story, she'd have a bigger role to play as 
> Hermione's opposite.  But, while the flavor is there, JKR is 
> concentrating more on other aspects of the story and Hermione gets 
> beyond Pansy by, well, day one almost. (And even then, Ron was 
more 
> Hermione's "mean girl".  He's the one who had her crying in the 
> girls' room.)

I think that part of the problem of Pansy's character comes from the 
fact that we only really see one point of view, Harry's (a male). 
Harry simply does not observe to closely or care about the 
interactions of say Hermione and Pansy or Pansy and any other girl 
it appears. What's more I think that Pansy, to Harry at least, comes 
across as being Draco's "groupie" (that's not exactly what I'd call 
it but I can't think of a better word). She's the girl who backs 
Draco up, laughs at his jokes, hangs out with him, has her friends 
back his little mission (the badges in GoF?), etc. She sort of comes 
across as a female Peter.

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