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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 180515

> Montavilla47:
> Hehe.  Well, it isn't Prejudice so much as Pride, right?  I'm 
headdesking
> right now because I never realized the Harry/Draco = Elizabeth/Darcy
> connection before.  
> 
> No wonder people slash Harry/Draco!
> 
> I wonder if Jane Austen had produced Pride and Prejudice as a 
> serial novel if people would have been outraged when Elizabeth
> got together with Darcy at the end instead of whatshisname.
> 
> And if anyone would have written fanfics in which Darcy was 
> conveniently killed off, or else shown to be a wife-beater....

a_svirn:
Yeah, but Darcy and Elisabeth had each of them some of both, whereas 
in this case all prejudice seems to be on Draco's side and all pride 
on Harry's ...

As for fanfics, they not only write them, but even publish and sell 
them openly in the bookstores. I saw with my own disbelieving 
eyes: "Mr Darcy Takes a Wife" (with a rather suggestive picture on 
the front cover) and another one, something about Mr Darcy's 
daughters. 

a_svirn