   Miss Extraordinary 7/28/05 . chapter 1OMG I object to you saying that my fic is better than yours, I'm in love with this one already! I love the "CARROT CARROT CARROT!" lol, anyway, I gotta run now coz I gotta read the rest of this story!
Miss Extraordinary
p.s. "Deceptive Dragon" chapter 2 is up _ |
| Dragix 7/25/05 . chapter 1 This is a direct quote from Rowling. Check Mugglenet's and LeakyCauldron's interview with her to confirm:
"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." |
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