Pansy Parkinson WAS :Re: That "Love" thing

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>>Betsy Hp
> > PS: I have to mention this gem...
> > "JKR: No! God, it wasn't Pansy Parkinson! I loath that girl. (JN
> > and SU laugh) I don't love Draco but I really dislike her. She's
> > every girl who ever teased me at school, she's the anti-Hermione.
> > I loathe her. Yes, sorry, sidetracked there by my latent
> > bitterness
"
> > Hee! No wonder I liked Pansy. :D

> >>Pippin:
> Betsy, are you saying you teased people like JKR when you were in
> school? :D

Betsy Hp:
I'm saying anyone anti-Hermione can come sit by me. ;)


Alla:

Hmmmm, speaking about Pansy Parkinson. I too was surprised by this 
remark from JKR, but for a different reason than Betsy was obviously.

I never have any problems with writer taking some qualities of RL 
people that he or she knows and portraying them in their bad guys or 
good guys for that matter, so that does not bother me.

I mean, where else writer is supposed to observe people but in real 
life IMO. Half of the characters in War and peace were portrayed from 
real life people. I mean obviously they were not exact copies and 
Tolstoy could add the fictional motivations and portray several 
people in one, etc, but definitely many of them had real life 
prototypes and contemporary readers even recognized some of them from 
what I read.

As I said, I think it is normal, so it did not bother me in the 
slightest that JKR put some qualities of that teacher in Snape, that 
she said that Pansy is every girl that teased her, etc. I mean, if 
she imagined her story just to punish her RL offenders, that would be 
a bit bizarre to me, but if she had in mind the story and 
just "painted her bad guys from nature" so to speak, that is 
perfectly usual and normal for me.

Hmmm, so what I am trying to say here? Oh yes, Pansy. Sure I dislike 
her and I take Hermione over her at all time. I dislike her as 
supporter of DE and Voldemort, etc.

But I would think that if Pansy invokes such strong feelings in JKR, 
I would expect that she would portray her in stronger negative tones. 
I mean, sure she commits a horrible deed in DH, but I would expect 
her to be shown as worse throughout the books.

Like as I said before I want to strangle Malfoy and Snape pretty much 
every time they opened their mouths for six books, with Pansy it was 
like – oh whatever, another little DE in passing.

I do not know, maybe I wanted to hear mudblood from her more often or 
something like that.

JMO,

Alla