Regarding DTCL's frequent attitude toward two certain HP characters

[star-dragon5.livejournal.com]

You're all familiar with the Draco in Leather Pants and Ron the Death Eater tropes, right?

After seeing the way some--not all--members of this comm treat Snape and Dumbledore, I'm seriously tempted to rename the tropes "Severus in Leather Pants" and "Albus the Death Eater."

I'm sorry if I've offended anyone, but I joined DTCL under the impression it was about analyzing the more problematic parts of the HP books, not about glorifying characters you like/bashing characters you don't like. It looks like I was wrong.

Comments

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

It is in Care of Magical creatures with a "handwritten" note: did any tell Hagrid?

Do you mean the 'charity' book 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'? I never read that book, or 'Quidditch Through the Ages'.

for_diddled thought that Rita's article in GoF stated that cross-breeding was illegal but it didn't quite go that far IMO.

[oryx_leucoryx]

Fantastic Beasts is an old book. Maybe crossbreeding was illegal when it was published, and then someone created a loophole.

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

Sorry it was 'Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find them'.

I had it in a boxed set with 'Quidditch Through the Ages'.

The gimmick was that the Beast book was Harry's "actual book". So you had the text book with notes written by Harry and Ron. I think it was Ron (or it could have been Harry) wrote the note about did Hagrid know.

Hagrid, however, considers himself to be above such petty restrictions

After all Hagrid is a Gryffindor. And it is ok if a Gryffindor does it.