Cho Chang auditions

[sarea]

Malfoy's Potter tips to Cho girls

Why's he giving out advice to potential Chos, anyway? Perhaps to indulge my guilty-pleasure ship.

According to this, they're looking for girls with Southeast Asian descent. WTF really? I would have thought East Asian from her name, but what do I know?

And wait, so -- gah, I'm so not up on HP news. There were rumors a few weeks back that the kids had signed on for the GoF movie, but then it went back and forth over whether this was actually true or just a rumor, blah blah. But if they're holding casting auditions for Cho Chang this weekend, that means that the film's been greenlighted, right? And from the sound of things, Dan and everyone else will be back. Right?

Oh, whatever. I'm just excited/wary to see who they'll pick for Cho. If only I were 10 years younger and lived in London. Of course, if I played Cho I'd make the suggestion that she doesn't go for Harry because she's actually in love with his nemesis, and could she and Malfoy have a snog scene please?

And I want more pictures. Did Tom shoot up to 6'1" during filming? How did they "fix" that? Did the other people in his scenes have to stand on boxes? I mean, he's only supposed to be 13. He can't tower over his teachers.

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[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Canon Draco probably isn't a good Seeker, period. Fanon has completely changed who he is. I know a lot of that is blamed on the fact that he's so two-dimensional that you could do practically anything w/ him, but let's face facts: A lot of FanonDraco's characteristics aren't just made up; they actually refute what we "know" about him. (Though we really only see him through Harry's eyes, yadda yadda -- we know those rationalizations too. <g>)

I can understand wanting to give him more depth. Flat villains aren't any fun. But I don't see anyone writing about small, average-looking, average-Quidditch-playing, average-student Draco with an inferiority complex who needs protectors and pulls the wings off flies just because he can. That's apparently not a character we want to give depth to, even though it could be done. It's just not fun to write or read about.

And -- I just thought of this -- he's supposed to be the anti-hero. Harry's peer arch-nemesis. That's no fun if he's just inferior in every way! We like thinking of them as equal but on opposite ends of the spectrum, because there's tension and possibility in that. Otherwise, we've got Harry, who's this big hero-type, and then annoying-gnat Draco, and that's just not very interesting. I mean, Superman's foil is Lex Luthor, and that wouldn't be suspenseful at all if Lex didn't have something that would prove threatening to Superman.

I'm slashy? YOU WERE THE ONE WHO LOOKED FOR THE TWINS.

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I think a lot of the stories I read in fandom don't have him portrayed that way because that's not a Draco Ginny can get behind, which makes me wonder just why I love them or saw it possible that they be together in the first place.

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Honestly? I have no idea how D/G gets into anyone's heads w/o having read something that "changed" Draco into someone you could see with her with. Just coming out of canon? NO WAY. The DT got me into D/G, but I know there are lots of people who got into D/G w/o ever having read it. I'm really curious to know how and why. If you read something that got you into the ship, what made you decide to read that story, anyway? Why did you find it appealing enough to click on it? Was it just the novelty/strangeness of Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley in a romantic relationship? (These are rhetorical questions posed to D/G shippers in general; I'm not trying to grill you. <g>)

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That's not the slash I'm talking about AND YOU KNOW IT. You led me down this PRIMROSE PATH TO HELL.

I agree with you wrt how we want to perceive Draco as the anti-hero so we give him equal but opposite "powers" as Harry because that makes him interesting to write. However, and I get this idea from fametracker.com, I think the point of Draco is that he IS two-dimensional and flat. He's a childish enemy to Harry and his importance to Harry is only in childish ways (Quidditch and his friends). I don't think Harry really views Draco as "eeeeeevil" in the sense of LV or even Lovely Lucius. Draco's drastically reduced role in OotP sort of supports this. Once the shit hit the fan in OotP and Harry started thinking about "grownup" stuff, Draco's antics barely made a blip on his radar except when he was being assy on the "Nooooo One Expects the Spanish Inquisition!" squad.

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[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Excuse me? You were always WAY slashier than I was. You found all the girl/girl pictures.

Alas, I agree wrt Draco's "importance" in the books -- in that, he doesn't have any. It was always easy to recognize that unless JKR did something more w/ him, he'd be doomed to being an irritating gnat who was barely a blip on Harry's radar, considering the looming threat of, you know, The Dark Lord. I just always thought that if she really didn't have any plans for Draco, why's he even as prominent as he is? Why'd she name him Draco, when that word is used elsewhere in the books for random things (like the school motto, and Gryffindor's first password)? And I'm okay w/ it being meaningless; it's just that JKR's been so careful w/ her symbology and hidden meanings and such that I'm paranoid one's passing me by.

I'm curious to see, with his father in prison, whether Draco will allow himself to be influenced by others around him (say, Snape), or whether his malevolence will be shown to be bone deep, and he'll continue down the path to Death Eaterdom.

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I was slashy AFTER YOU STARTED IT. And "all the girl/girl pictures"? Please. I found, like, two. And I never heard you complaining about 'em.

I guess Draco can always become actually evil instead of merely annoying and bratty, but he's going to have to have a big change in book six to do so. With his father in jail, he can be influenced by Snape (maybe. I'm not convinced Snape would care enough to try. Snape's a bastard.) or he can try to fill his father's shoes and/or be bitter toward Harry for putting his father away in the big house.

I agree, it would be majorly odd to do nothing with Draco given his name, his parentage and his presence in the books up until now. Maybe he'll just be a run of the mill DE.