Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jun. 8th, 2004 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyFirst off -- meep. 400 people (as in, communities not included) have me friended. But I maintain that this does not, in any way, make me anything resembling even a Middle Name Fan.
*looks around shiftily, polishes 'Little Name Fan' plaque, displays plaque for all to see*
See? Little fish, big pond.
First off, Draco did even less to earn Hermione's ire than I'd remembered.
Observations of the scene in question:
A) Draco crows over the fact that the animal that did, in fact, attack him is going to be put down. Now, I *heart* animals, but Hagrid had no right to bring a dangerous creature into a class of thirteen year-olds in the first place. Draco didn't observe the rules, but a thirteen year old child should not be put into a situation where not paying attention can lead to pain and death. Thirteen year olds are stupid and they suck at paying attention.
B) He asks the Trio if they 'came to see the show', which is petty, but isn't actually an insult.
C) Hermione pulls her wand on him, sticks it at his throat, and he pretty much goes to pieces in fear.
D) She pulls the wand away, he laughs in what looked like relief to me (she's not going to hex me!), and then she punches him.
E) He cowers and runs away, and then calls her a Mudblood and says he'll get her. After she has, one might note, threatened and attacked him.
In fact, the first time that he ever calls her a Mudblood in the books is after she's insulted his pride and his talent. When he's talking about her to his father earlier in the book, he just calls her 'Granger'. It really does remind me of Snape snapping 'Mudblood' at Lily after he's been humilated by James and Sirius. It's an instinctive reaction, lashing out. And Snape lashes out at the person who helps him, while Draco, at least, only lashes out at those who hurt him. Though Draco doesn't have a Lily, someone from another house who gives a damn.
I paid more attention to Pansy Parkinson this time around and was thrilled. She's such a little sophisticated child.
Hermione... well, she's a violent girl, isn't she? Violent and so firmly self-righteous. Which are, indeed, as I recall, flaws that further develop later on in the books. In OotP, when she leads Umbridge to get tortured by the centaurs...
*shudders*
Also, after rewatching the movie, I actually would put stock in the Ron=Dumbledore theory. It would make sense. I mean, the sheer pettiness of how Slytherin's Cup victory in PS is taken away makes me think of Ron.
*looks around shiftily, polishes 'Little Name Fan' plaque, displays plaque for all to see*
See? Little fish, big pond.
First off, Draco did even less to earn Hermione's ire than I'd remembered.
Observations of the scene in question:
A) Draco crows over the fact that the animal that did, in fact, attack him is going to be put down. Now, I *heart* animals, but Hagrid had no right to bring a dangerous creature into a class of thirteen year-olds in the first place. Draco didn't observe the rules, but a thirteen year old child should not be put into a situation where not paying attention can lead to pain and death. Thirteen year olds are stupid and they suck at paying attention.
B) He asks the Trio if they 'came to see the show', which is petty, but isn't actually an insult.
C) Hermione pulls her wand on him, sticks it at his throat, and he pretty much goes to pieces in fear.
D) She pulls the wand away, he laughs in what looked like relief to me (she's not going to hex me!), and then she punches him.
E) He cowers and runs away, and then calls her a Mudblood and says he'll get her. After she has, one might note, threatened and attacked him.
In fact, the first time that he ever calls her a Mudblood in the books is after she's insulted his pride and his talent. When he's talking about her to his father earlier in the book, he just calls her 'Granger'. It really does remind me of Snape snapping 'Mudblood' at Lily after he's been humilated by James and Sirius. It's an instinctive reaction, lashing out. And Snape lashes out at the person who helps him, while Draco, at least, only lashes out at those who hurt him. Though Draco doesn't have a Lily, someone from another house who gives a damn.
I paid more attention to Pansy Parkinson this time around and was thrilled. She's such a little sophisticated child.
Hermione... well, she's a violent girl, isn't she? Violent and so firmly self-righteous. Which are, indeed, as I recall, flaws that further develop later on in the books. In OotP, when she leads Umbridge to get tortured by the centaurs...
*shudders*
Also, after rewatching the movie, I actually would put stock in the Ron=Dumbledore theory. It would make sense. I mean, the sheer pettiness of how Slytherin's Cup victory in PS is taken away makes me think of Ron.