[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR and the boys

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 161539

>Magpie
>snip>
Malfoy, as it happens, seems to be very good friends with Pansy  
Parkinson (she seems to be his girlfriend, but then so will Ron be  
Hermione's and Ginny is Harry's) so he's not always in an all-male 
group  either. He doesn't seem so much less sensitive than Harry in 
those  ways--Harry seems to view girls as generally foreign creatures 
so doesn't  seem all that sensitive that way. Malfoy's a jerk in 
plenty of ways, but  doesn't seen particularly testosterone heavy. 
His only scene of bragging  about sexual exploits is to play up his 
arm injury to Pansy when he's  13--<snip>
 
Nikkalmati:
 
I have been listening to GOF and I was struck about something about Malfoy  
in the scene in the forest at the World Cup when Ron, Harry and Hermione are  
fleeing the riot caused by the DEs.   He says something like "keep  that bushy 
head down if you don't want to be part of the entertainment" and  "having you 
turned upside down would be good for a laugh" and "they can tell  you're a 
Mudblood"  (quotes from memory but more or less  accurate).   It can be read as 
Malfoy taunting and insulting Hermione,  but I wonder if it can't be read as a 
sincere warning.  Maybe he doesn't  want Hermione to be attacked by the DEs, 
but can't come across that way in front  of Harry and Ron. 
 
Nikkalmati
 


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