the draco-as-racist comment was rather offhand in the ron rant. i think partly i agree with you and partly i see the lines drawn differently. the israel-palistine conflict could be seen as racial as well, though of course it's not that simple. the muggle-wizard thing isn't that simple either. and i think what makes draco a bad guy is that he does see it as simple - bringing it down to insulting hermione because she's connected by blood to a group of people that include some that might put restrictions on/hurt the wizarding world, given the chance. there's a power dynamic to consider as well...
at this point, muggles are pretty much an innocent group. their ancestors, not so much maybe. but most of them aren't allowed knowledge of the wizard world and thus their reaction is untested.
yeah, ok. i'm just rambly - and i'm putting this anology about israel and palestine together in my head whereby the wizards are israel - oprressed by muggles until they mananged to go off and find their own happy space only to fuck it up by turning their opression back on muggles when they find the power to do it and a ruthless enough leader. um. i'd better not attempt to persue that any further.
and btw, i'm a straight up h/d shipper with a penchant for writing and defending h/r. i find empathy for draco as well - more because he's young and he hasn't had a chance to think for himself much yet than because i think the stuff he's done so far in canon is defensable. i do get a bit of that instinctual digust when i read the end of GoF... so i try not to think about it too much.
well yeah.
Date: 2003-01-25 01:45 pm (UTC)at this point, muggles are pretty much an innocent group. their ancestors, not so much maybe. but most of them aren't allowed knowledge of the wizard world and thus their reaction is untested.
yeah, ok. i'm just rambly - and i'm putting this anology about israel and palestine together in my head whereby the wizards are israel - oprressed by muggles until they mananged to go off and find their own happy space only to fuck it up by turning their opression back on muggles when they find the power to do it and a ruthless enough leader. um. i'd better not attempt to persue that any further.
and btw, i'm a straight up h/d shipper with a penchant for writing and defending h/r. i find empathy for draco as well - more because he's young and he hasn't had a chance to think for himself much yet than because i think the stuff he's done so far in canon is defensable. i do get a bit of that instinctual digust when i read the end of GoF... so i try not to think about it too much.
thanks for you thoughtful... um.. thoughts. :)