Oh, that is TOTALLY how I see Lucius too--and I think that's partially why I can't even imagine Harry/Lucius. I've seen it and it just always seems ridiculous to me because I think Harry could take him in just about every way, because he grew up with Vernon who taught him adults could just be idiots.
Like, I think of Harry as *wanting* a good father in his life, and needing one in certain ways, but not the most basic ones. So I just can't imagine him getting past, "Hello," with Lucius because he just thinks he's an asshole and I don't think he could even think of him as a father. A father to Malfoy, yeah, in terms of being a larger, more annoying version of the git in his class, but not a father like his own or even like Sirius, you know?
With Draco, now that's where he's scary to me. I just see this little kid looking up up up at him until he practically blots out the sun. He reminds me of this Dr. Seuss book I remember seeing when I was little that was about Moms and Dads, maybe? (Maybe it wasn't a Seuss book just a random house book in that same imprint so it looked like one superficially.) Anyway, there was all this stuff about dads and then it said, "Sometimes Dads can be scary," and there was this picture of this angry father looking down from what looked like a great height and I thought yeah, that's totally what's scary about fathers.
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Date: 2004-07-14 08:32 pm (UTC)Like, I think of Harry as *wanting* a good father in his life, and needing one in certain ways, but not the most basic ones. So I just can't imagine him getting past, "Hello," with Lucius because he just thinks he's an asshole and I don't think he could even think of him as a father. A father to Malfoy, yeah, in terms of being a larger, more annoying version of the git in his class, but not a father like his own or even like Sirius, you know?
With Draco, now that's where he's scary to me. I just see this little kid looking up up up at him until he practically blots out the sun. He reminds me of this Dr. Seuss book I remember seeing when I was little that was about Moms and Dads, maybe? (Maybe it wasn't a Seuss book just a random house book in that same imprint so it looked like one superficially.) Anyway, there was all this stuff about dads and then it said, "Sometimes Dads can be scary," and there was this picture of this angry father looking down from what looked like a great height and I thought yeah, that's totally what's scary about fathers.