wow. i am a little bit speechless. this was just so brilliantly affecting, my heart's still squeezing in my chest. so many complex emotional layers i don't even know where to start.
i'll start out simple and say that i adore scorpius so much it's ridiculous. you've made him so wonderfully precocious and so utterly malfoy, but with a more innocent quality than i can ever imagine draco having had. his little quips at the dinner table were beyond fantastic. the picture? astoria's comment? AMAZING! you're timing is just so perfect.
draco is incredibly compelling to me. there is something almost painful in reading the things he thinks and says, and i think in part it's because they're so utterly honest. he's blinded to his on stubbornness and prejudices toward his own opinion and his own way of life, and he's so genuinely frustrated at harry's inability to comprehend those things. he's not a monster. he's not rejecting harry out of pure maliciousness or even out of pure vanity. he just sees one way and he can't figure out why harry doesn't see it too, and so he feels attacked. i think it's a very real character portrait and i'm sympathetic to him.
i don't know if i'm making any sense here or if i've just wandered off into babbling territory, but, yeah, i love him. his fascination with harry, his almost fetishization of his own revulsion, it's all just so intriguing and complex and i think very, very real.
harry was amazing in this chapter, especially at dinner. it was incredibly powerful when he wandlessly put on the glamour--i actually had a visceral reaction reading it. and the things he said to draco about pretense not being enough, and that draco would have left him for his cowadice--my heart broke. his disfigurement and the trauma of his torture and the way he's coped have made me so fascinated with his inner life, i just want to get inside his head. i feel like i know less than i do about draco, and i want so badly to know more. i guess in that way i'm almost put in draco's place as the reader: as i read each chapter i can't stop thinking about what harry looks like. it's as if i keep a picture of him in the front of my mind as i read and i can't stop looking at it, tweaking it as i read different details about his face and his body.
okay, i'm babbling. but really, i think you've outdone yourself. this chapter was just phenomenal.
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Date: 2008-11-14 05:04 am (UTC)i'll start out simple and say that i adore scorpius so much it's ridiculous. you've made him so wonderfully precocious and so utterly malfoy, but with a more innocent quality than i can ever imagine draco having had. his little quips at the dinner table were beyond fantastic. the picture? astoria's comment? AMAZING! you're timing is just so perfect.
draco is incredibly compelling to me. there is something almost painful in reading the things he thinks and says, and i think in part it's because they're so utterly honest. he's blinded to his on stubbornness and prejudices toward his own opinion and his own way of life, and he's so genuinely frustrated at harry's inability to comprehend those things. he's not a monster. he's not rejecting harry out of pure maliciousness or even out of pure vanity. he just sees one way and he can't figure out why harry doesn't see it too, and so he feels attacked. i think it's a very real character portrait and i'm sympathetic to him.
i don't know if i'm making any sense here or if i've just wandered off into babbling territory, but, yeah, i love him. his fascination with harry, his almost fetishization of his own revulsion, it's all just so intriguing and complex and i think very, very real.
harry was amazing in this chapter, especially at dinner. it was incredibly powerful when he wandlessly put on the glamour--i actually had a visceral reaction reading it. and the things he said to draco about pretense not being enough, and that draco would have left him for his cowadice--my heart broke. his disfigurement and the trauma of his torture and the way he's coped have made me so fascinated with his inner life, i just want to get inside his head. i feel like i know less than i do about draco, and i want so badly to know more. i guess in that way i'm almost put in draco's place as the reader: as i read each chapter i can't stop thinking about what harry looks like. it's as if i keep a picture of him in the front of my mind as i read and i can't stop looking at it, tweaking it as i read different details about his face and his body.
okay, i'm babbling. but really, i think you've outdone yourself. this chapter was just phenomenal.