I would love to leave a thoughtful comment but am too tired. Anyway, your essay stuck with me over the day (read it first thing in the morning and was quite awake afterwards LOL) and I can relate to a lot of things you said.
I always despised canon!Draco until he lowered his wand on the Astronomy Tower because people who didn't think for themselves and just parrot their surroundings are just urgh. It might have been self-preservation or some other intention, I don't care. Finally he showed his own thoughts and feelings and not indoctrinated ones.
I'm not sure about Slytherin house and it's part. But I always thought that Harry's world is a really gruesome one and though Hogwards was the only home to the lost ones (Harry, Snape, and Voldemort) its teachers and pedagogical approach was beyond horrible. Seriously, would you have wanted to have a teacher like Snape (and maybe be treated like Neville)? Or such a manipulative headmaster like Dumbledore? Thank you very much. Therefore I can't relate to matching the characters to biblical figures (like done in the comments) though it's obvious that the books are a fable about good and evil.
Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to reading inglevine's thoughts as well.
I really enjoyed your essay and reading all the comments (especially my_thestral's one :D).
Sorry, for this incoherent mess. I stop now before it is getting even worse.
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Date: 2014-11-26 10:07 pm (UTC)I always despised canon!Draco until he lowered his wand on the Astronomy Tower because people who didn't think for themselves and just parrot their surroundings are just urgh. It might have been self-preservation or some other intention, I don't care. Finally he showed his own thoughts and feelings and not indoctrinated ones.
I'm not sure about Slytherin house and it's part. But I always thought that Harry's world is a really gruesome one and though Hogwards was the only home to the lost ones (Harry, Snape, and Voldemort) its teachers and pedagogical approach was beyond horrible.
Seriously, would you have wanted to have a teacher like Snape (and maybe be treated like Neville)? Or such a manipulative headmaster like Dumbledore? Thank you very much. Therefore I can't relate to matching the characters to biblical figures (like done in the comments) though it's obvious that the books are a fable about good and evil.
Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to reading inglevine's thoughts as well.
I really enjoyed your essay and reading all the comments (especially my_thestral's one :D).
Sorry, for this incoherent mess. I stop now before it is getting even worse.