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Imho, though my opinion is considered to be BLASPHEMY by most. Rowling did, indeed, prove able to drag together EVERY SINGLE PIECE of mythos, fairytale, folklore, fantasy, and CLICHE from every HIGHER CALIBER piece of fiction EVER WRITTEN into HER hodge-podge of stories, but there the compliment and comparison ends! If I go to a 5 Star restaurant and order the VERY BEST of everything and eat it all, including dessert and the rarest of vintages and then proceed to turn and VOMIT IT OUT onto a piece of canvas, would you be inclined to pay an extravagant price to own it just because it contains pieces of some very rare and expensive food though regurgitated by a FOOL? Sorry; this is why I READ HPff: Because quite a lot of it is written by writers who actually THINK and have a HEART! Just because her publisher is really good at SELLING Rowling's 'work' and popularizing it to mostly young, inexperienced readers doesn't make them all that GOOD! The REAL WRITERS (LIKE YOU!) are HERE, working in relative obscurity! That's one thing I LOVED about the Star Trek fandom: Gene Roddenberry ENCOURAGED writers with ideas for ST FAN FICTION to publish and make money on his creation! They're some of my most treasured books! I only wish that the greedy bastards who control the HP franchise would let Y'ALL make the money y'all deserve and show Rowling what REAL WRITING looks like! Cuz she hasn't a clue! Thank you for this great beginning! I know you probably won't answer and that I probably won't like what you say, anyway, but there it is: YOU ROCK and Rowling SUCKS! MelJ 54 year old, lifelong Fantasy and Sci-Fi bibliophile!
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Author's Response: Thanks, I like to try to allow characters to develop within the personality JKR has given them; Draco originally wanted Harry as a friend (no doubt due to Lucius) and Lucius knows how to choose- and court- his allies.
Author's Response: Thank you. I wanted to write a more mature Petunia but, obviously, she needed an event which would shock her into realising that a. Harry was just a little boy and b. how nasty Vernon/Marge really were. The dog attack was a way of allowing her to witness the effect of her neglect and tolerance of abuse in her family; one child bleeds and suffers like any other and, moreover, the public outcry after such a mauling must have shamed and humiliated her. So we have a contrite and rather more self-aware Petunia, who is trying to heal both physical and mental scars, whilst knowing that she could have prevented them; she's still uncomfortable about Harry, still dislikes and envies her sister, still considers 'normal' to be the highest compliment and is still a snob BUT she is trying to be a better person, despite her natural inclination to be a bit snarky and spiteful. So far, Lucius is only accepting on the outside; he is courting Harry's good opinion because he wants the boy to see him as an ally- any other muggle aunt of a halfblood orphan would have recieved no more than a sneer. Draco, however, really likes Harry and tolerates Petunia with no more rancour than his other friend's parents.
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