I always thought it was pretty clear that Ginny just protected Luna and knew her from class. It would be perfectly easy to show them as friends, and they aren't. They walk out of class at the same time a lot, and that's also where Ginny does her defending. Plus Luna keeps teling us that she has no friends. This isn't something Harry ever hides--he knows Neville and Luna have no friends, which would include him. The other day I saw a reference to Luna as one of Harry's best friends I was like...err...what? This isn't me being difficult, it's just there in the story. Luna can't be friendless and also friends with Harry, Ginny, Neville, Hermione, Ron and all the other cool kids.
What is it with the fandom resistance to a S&D friendship, anyway?
It's an interesting thing. At first at least you had to admit it *could* be a cover if people thought well, Snape's working for DD so how could he really favor Malfoy the junior DE? Only to me it always read as the truth, absolutely. The weird thing is post-HBP where people are still trying to re-write it, but I think it's mostly just a certain type of extreme fans who either really hate Draco (and so everyone else must hate him too and none of his relationships are genuine) or love Snape in such a way that he must hate Draco too. If they read things that simply it's easy to mistake what is, imo, a perfectly well-written scene between two people who care about each other but are now often at odds, for "proof" that Snape really never liked Draco. If he liked him he'd always be pleased with him all the time! Because that's how relationships work! They are probably doing the same thing with everyone else, assuming Harry must really really be good friends with Neville and Luna because he should be, or that he always treats Ron and Hermione with great respect and compassion because that would be Good.
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Date: 2006-06-24 10:17 pm (UTC)What is it with the fandom resistance to a S&D friendship, anyway?
It's an interesting thing. At first at least you had to admit it *could* be a cover if people thought well, Snape's working for DD so how could he really favor Malfoy the junior DE? Only to me it always read as the truth, absolutely. The weird thing is post-HBP where people are still trying to re-write it, but I think it's mostly just a certain type of extreme fans who either really hate Draco (and so everyone else must hate him too and none of his relationships are genuine) or love Snape in such a way that he must hate Draco too. If they read things that simply it's easy to mistake what is, imo, a perfectly well-written scene between two people who care about each other but are now often at odds, for "proof" that Snape really never liked Draco. If he liked him he'd always be pleased with him all the time! Because that's how relationships work! They are probably doing the same thing with everyone else, assuming Harry must really really be good friends with Neville and Luna because he should be, or that he always treats Ron and Hermione with great respect and compassion because that would be Good.