Murtle and Draco WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP21, The Unknowable Room

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No: HPFGUIDX 158752

> 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
>

Alla:

I am actually not dismissing Murtle description completely and 
especially looking at it retroactively, I am not, that is why I said 
that being upset part I think is correct, but **sensitive** to me 
implies sensitivity to other people's feelings as well and sorry, 
but that I am still yet to see in Draco :)

Oh, and if being bullied means bullied by Voldemort, then I am 
forced to agree with it as well, at some point Draco is being 
bullied by Voldemort. I was disagreeing with Draco being bullied by 
other Slytherins, unless I forgot the references to it.

JMO,

Alla