Draco...Interesting? - Change

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177027

> bboyminn:

> Now, I think, the lack of satisfaction in many 
> people's minds is because they didn't get a long
> Shakespearian monolog in which Draco renounces his
> past and embraces his new better future. An endless
> dramatic soliloquy in which Draco spells out the
> error of his ways and professes his new enlightened
> future.
> 
> The problem is, that only happens in Shakespeare and
> other such pretentious and overwrought drama. In real
> life, these accompanying thoughts and revelations
> happen on the inside.

Magpie:

Yes! That is totally what I wanted. I only thought I saw the change 
in Draco perfectly well and found it personally unsatisfyingly 
limited. And I did totally forget how soliloquies only happen in 
pretentious and overwrought dramas like Shakespeare's plays from 
hundreds of years ago. Are you sure? I could have sworn that The 
Bourne Ultimatum had several endless monologues where Jason Bourne 
explained to us what he was thinking. He must have, otherwise I 
obviously wouldn't have enjoyed the movie. But then, what do I know? 
I didn't even know Shakespeare was pretentious and overwrought. I 
thought he was a talented guy writing in the style of his times for 
a different medium who's still effective today.

You know what JKR really needed, though, along with the few times 
she actually does have characters make speeches (the non-pretentious 
kind), was a Greek chorus. They could just come out and sing all the 
stuff for dim folks like me who can't follow modern literary 
conventions and miss all the stuff happening on the inside. The 
chorus could explain in iambic pentameter how in HBP even though 
everybody's saying Voldemort is punishing Lucius etc., that Draco 
really went to him with this plan etc. etc. etc. Or how Slytherin is 
actually much better than they seem on the outside. Or the good guys 
are problematic. Or how Harry and Draco ran off and got married (on 
the inside).

-m (grateful for the Internet, where she can find people to tell her 
what she thinks and why!)