*/Dumbledore needs Professor Snape./ Harry seems quite reluctant to call for Snape's help (D had to ask him twice, while Harry was insisting on calling the nurse). I pity D here: he knows he is dying, only Snape (who is relatively far away) can help him & Harry is a stubborn dumbass , intending to bring utterly useless Madam Pomphey due to old prejudice, wasting precious time. It's questionable whether even at the hospital they would save D, let alone the simple nurse.
* /He refers to getting his "friends" killed, which ironically doesn’t make Sirius come to mind./ But … sistermagpie, it isn't ironic, since we can not afford concentrating on Harry's stubbornness, past tragical mistakes or (heaven forbid!) stupidity, can we? Then we would be liable to get 8 books instead of 7.
*/I really do love the moment where Dumbledore freezes Harry and gets his own wand expelled for it/ It shows the true amount of trust D has in H's intelligence and abilities. Probably the previous chapter's adventure opened D's eyes a bit.
*/Dumbledore’s using "Draco" right and left in the scene, but the narrator stubbornly sticks to Malfoy, thanks!/ It subtly(!) shows the difference between D's & JKR's feelings about Draco. D views him as a person in difficult position, forced for the first time in his life to understand the seriousness of the situation and the true meaning/cost of bringing to life the ideas, which he absorbed with his mother's milk. On the other hand, JKR views him as a weak, bad, despicable person, who probably (we will see in the next book, I fear) hasn't been punished enough. Well, may be it is NOT as black& white as I told, but D seems to have more sympathy for Draco than Rowing. Since she is the writer, don't ask me how it is possible. Oh! I got it! D is the epitome of goodness & as such pities even the not deserving people, succumbing to his greatest fault to believe in the best of people.
*/Is Fenrir bleeding? / He has just attacked Bill, so it's Bill's blood. Ouch…
*/You know, Fenrir would have made a far better boggart for Lupin. Imagine if that guy had popped out of that wardrobe!/ But then we wouldn't have this hint to Lupin's disease, which enabled Hermione to figure out his being a werewolf, and most importantly Lupin would seem contemptuously weak- only such cowards as Peter are afraid of their enemies, heroes are only afraid of the fear itself (with Harry as our shining example). Btw, I have never understood Lupin's line about the fright of the fear alone about Harry's boggat dementor. To me it seemed that Harry was just more afraid of the dementors since they were closer than Voldemort at the time.
* /James Bond Exposition Rule-But turned on its head, since Draco’s exposition is explicitly a way to avoid killing. Which is probably why his victim winds up dead while Dr. No’s wind up alive. / Props to JKR for giving such ironic twist to the old idea. Of course, it was entirely accidental, but anyway…
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Re: Draco, Fenrir, Harry & D
Date: 2006-09-15 07:02 pm (UTC)Harry seems quite reluctant to call for Snape's help (D had to ask him twice, while Harry was insisting on calling the nurse). I pity D here: he knows he is dying, only Snape (who is relatively far away) can help him & Harry is a stubborn dumbass , intending to bring utterly useless Madam Pomphey due to old prejudice, wasting precious time. It's questionable whether even at the hospital they would save D, let alone the simple nurse.
* /He refers to getting his "friends" killed, which ironically doesn’t make Sirius come to mind./
But … sistermagpie, it isn't ironic, since we can not afford concentrating on Harry's stubbornness, past tragical mistakes or (heaven forbid!) stupidity, can we? Then we would be liable to get 8 books instead of 7.
*/I really do love the moment where Dumbledore freezes Harry and gets his own wand expelled for it/
It shows the true amount of trust D has in H's intelligence and abilities. Probably the previous chapter's adventure opened D's eyes a bit.
*/Dumbledore’s using "Draco" right and left in the scene, but the narrator stubbornly sticks to Malfoy, thanks!/
It subtly(!) shows the difference between D's & JKR's feelings about Draco. D views him as a person in difficult position, forced for the first time in his life to understand the seriousness of the situation and the true meaning/cost of bringing to life the ideas, which he absorbed with his mother's milk. On the other hand, JKR views him as a weak, bad, despicable person, who probably (we will see in the next book, I fear) hasn't been punished enough. Well, may be it is NOT as black& white as I told, but D seems to have more sympathy for Draco than Rowing. Since she is the writer, don't ask me how it is possible. Oh! I got it! D is the epitome of goodness & as such pities even the not deserving people, succumbing to his greatest fault to believe in the best of people.
*/Is Fenrir bleeding? /
He has just attacked Bill, so it's Bill's blood. Ouch…
*/You know, Fenrir would have made a far better boggart for Lupin. Imagine if that guy had popped out of that wardrobe!/
But then we wouldn't have this hint to Lupin's disease, which enabled Hermione to figure out his being a werewolf, and most importantly Lupin would seem contemptuously weak- only such cowards as Peter are afraid of their enemies, heroes are only afraid of the fear itself (with Harry as our shining example). Btw, I have never understood Lupin's line about the fright of the fear alone about Harry's boggat dementor. To me it seemed that Harry was just more afraid of the dementors since they were closer than Voldemort at the time.
* /James Bond Exposition Rule-But turned on its head, since Draco’s exposition is explicitly a way to avoid killing. Which is probably why his victim winds up dead while Dr. No’s wind up alive. /
Props to JKR for giving such ironic twist to the old idea. Of course, it was entirely accidental, but anyway…