CHAPDISC: HBP21, The Unknowable Room

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 158749

> > 12. How much of Myrtle's description of sensitive, bullied, 
lonely 
> > Draco is her own imagination?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> As a joke - what Potioncat said, as more serious answer - I am 
sure 
> Draco being upset part was correct, bullied - um, doubt it.
> 
> So, yeah, Murtle has good imagination :), after all she is a 
teenage 
> girl too.

Magpie:
But it's not her imagination--we see it just as she described it in 
the Sectumsempra scene.  Draco is showing his feelings, being 
sensitive, crying.  And he's being bullied-by Voldemort.  Myrtle's 
not making that up, she's just only seeing a very small part of 
Draco.  That's something imo JKR does all the time, like the way 
Harry thought Snape was of course imagining James strutting around 
and then lo and behold, there he is strutting.  Myrtle's of course 
still projecting her own romantic wishes onto the situation, just as 
she did with Harry, but she is describing the Draco that exists in 
the four walls of that bathroom.

-m