Note to Self about RPing Draco for woolsocks.

[fickle]

JKR: Well, I'm glad you think so, because I enjoyed this one. Draco did a lot of growing up in this book as well. I had an interesting discussion, I thought, with my editor Emma, about Draco. She said to me, "So, Malfoy can do Occlumency," which obviously Harry never mastered and has now pretty much given up on doing, or attempting. And she was querying this and wondering whether he should be as good as it, but I think Draco would be very gifted in Occlumency, unlike Harry. Harry’s problem with it was always that his emotions were too near the surface and that he is in some ways too damaged. But he's also very in touch with his feelings about what's happened to him. He's not repressed, he's quite honest about facing them, and he couldn't suppress them, he couldn't suppress these memories. But I thought of Draco as someone who is very capable of compartmentalizing his life and his emotions, and always has done. So he's shut down his pity, enabling him to bully effectively. He's shut down compassion — how else would you become a Death Eater? So he suppresses virtually all of the good side of himself. But then he's playing with the big boys, as the phrase has it, and suddenly, having talked the talk he's asked to walk it for the first time and it is absolutely terrifying. And I think that that is an accurate depiction of how some people fall into that kind of way of life and they realize what they're in for. I felt sorry for Draco. Well, I’ve always known this was coming for Draco, obviously, however nasty he was.

Harry is correct in believing that Draco would not have killed Dumbledore, which I think is clear when he starts to lower his wand, when the matter is taken out of his hands.

Comments

[sorshawolf.livejournal.com]

Knowing what she had in mind as far as Draco went, it makes a lot more sense. Just all of a sudden, Draco is all blubbery and freaked out..didn't make a lot of sense.

There are still a few other things that made me want to ask her what JKR was thinking when she wrote them, but I'm sure she has a reason...somewhere in that warped little mind of hers...

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Google for the interviews and read them - she did them with MuggleNet.

[actualize.livejournal.com]

So I can dissociate him perfectly with pansy!draco and bitch!draco :P

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Yup, apparently so. XD

[actualize.livejournal.com]

>.>;;;;;

Still. As a Bully he still has BLATANTPANSY!Draco moments

[brownie-utonium.livejournal.com]

ARGH!! No spoilers, goddamit!! *is still reading the book*

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! I didn't realize that this was a spoiler or think of it as such ^^;;;

I'll cut it right now.

[brownie-utonium.livejournal.com]

What!! Dumbledore being murdered isn't a spoiler!? AMILAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! *bangs head on desk repeatedly* T___T

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

@_@ I really just copied and pasted without thinking, then bolded stuff in an edit. Sorry!

[xinda.livejournal.com]

hmm... from comments here, I'm thinking that the whole thing that people didn't like, was Draco's not willing to kill Dumbledore in the end?

I'm about go offline and this is proof I haven't read what everyone had to say about the book to find out what they did/didn't like ^^;

okay, off to bed.

'night and yay for reference type info stuff about Draco

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Yup, good for my RPs. XD