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

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 180569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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
>

Montavilla47:
I know.  I was kind of bummed because I couldn't get a copy 
of a Pride and Prejudice story written by Joan Aiken.

What can you say?  People love those characters and want 
more of them.