- "Spinner's End", besides showing us Snape's swinging bachelor pad, signals the first time in the books in which Narcissa gets a speaking part. This is surprising, given how Rowling doesn't care about updating her feminist cred anymore, but since Draco's (finally) getting an important part in the storyline, it stands to reason that he would share some of his spotlight with his dear old Mum.
It must have been physically painful for Jo to have write this scene. After all, she has just been forced to depict the ESE Malfoys--caricature villains of the piece--as a normal family driven by, if not love, certainly devotion to each other, to make difficult sacrifices that could very well result in the deaths of one or more of them.
Narcissa wants her husband back and fears the death of her son who has been driven to an impetuous act by the desire to protect his father. HOW AWFUL! What horrible people! Whatever their philosophy in life--not discounting the DE thing, don't get me wrong--they're real people with real, valid emotions. Poor Jo!
I find it very difficult to visualize Harry doing submitting to an unbreakable vow--and certainly can't see Hermione considering it without revealing 14 chapters later that she'd prepared a countercharm which makes the unbreakable vow not only breakable but assures a painful and gruesome (and comical!) death to the OTHER party if (oh let's just say it, WHEN) Hermione blithely skips out of it.
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Date: 2005-08-27 03:14 pm (UTC)It must have been physically painful for Jo to have write this scene. After all, she has just been forced to depict the ESE Malfoys--caricature villains of the piece--as a normal family driven by, if not love, certainly devotion to each other, to make difficult sacrifices that could very well result in the deaths of one or more of them.
Narcissa wants her husband back and fears the death of her son who has been driven to an impetuous act by the desire to protect his father. HOW AWFUL! What horrible people! Whatever their philosophy in life--not discounting the DE thing, don't get me wrong--they're real people with real, valid emotions. Poor Jo!
I find it very difficult to visualize Harry doing submitting to an unbreakable vow--and certainly can't see Hermione considering it without revealing 14 chapters later that she'd prepared a countercharm which makes the unbreakable vow not only breakable but assures a painful and gruesome (and comical!) death to the OTHER party if (oh let's just say it, WHEN) Hermione blithely skips out of it.