JKR's lesson on prejudice (was:Slytherins come back)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 180499

> >>revaunchanistx:
> > What? Did you miss Harry and Draco's meeting in Madam            
> > Malkin's...<snip> 

> >>Betsy Hp:
> > Oh, that's the scene where I first fell in *love* with Draco.
> > <snip>

> >>Alla:
> Well, the initial argument was that you spotted right away that     
> Harry was prejudiced to Draco, no?

Betsy Hp:
No, it wasn't actually.  I stated I spotted the prejudice theme (or 
thought I did, since it obviously wasn't there and I was merely 
projecting *g*) with Hagrid's statement that all the bad wizards came 
from Slytherin and Harry refusing to shake Draco's hand on the train.

I think revaunchanistx was merely trying to remind me that we were 
all supposed to hate tiny little Draco based on this scene.  Which I 
suppose we probably were.  But it didn't work for me because I 
totally got where Draco was coming from (I understood Harry's 
stiffness, too) and so I sympathized. (Geoff's view of the scene, 
described upthread, is how I saw it too.)

And after getting to know Hagrid a bit better, the scene became even 
more amusing because everything Draco said about him was true.  He 
*was* a type of servant (groundskeeper) and he did get drunk, and he 
did do magicial stuff that went wrong.  (But that's a sort of by the 
by.  Couldn't resist the chance to dig at Hagrid. *g*)

Betsy Hp