I wondered if this wasn't JKR finally getting in the bit she wanted to put in that deleted Draco/Theo Nott scene where we learned the story of Harry Potter that the DE kids grew up with.
I wonder if it might have been too much to have words like that come out of a teenager's mouth, which is why she chose to edit that scene. Like Snape, Draco and Theodore are aware of the reality behind "The Boy Who Lived" – they deal with him at school and know he's basically Dumbledore's pet. But unlike Snape, they don't know the reality of what it's like dealing with Voldemort. (Draco, of course, finds out just what that's like in HPB!) They can't effectively compare and contrast the two the way an adult who actually remembers Voldemort in his prime can.
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Date: 2005-08-27 11:29 am (UTC)I wonder if it might have been too much to have words like that come out of a teenager's mouth, which is why she chose to edit that scene. Like Snape, Draco and Theodore are aware of the reality behind "The Boy Who Lived" – they deal with him at school and know he's basically Dumbledore's pet. But unlike Snape, they don't know the reality of what it's like dealing with Voldemort. (Draco, of course, finds out just what that's like in HPB!) They can't effectively compare and contrast the two the way an adult who actually remembers Voldemort in his prime can.