~~mary-sue!draco, introspection, and the perils of reasonableness

is it strange that when i read a story where draco acts reasonable and vaguely sane and well-- normal-- i immediately go, oh. i guess all it will take is for harry to realize how reasonable (reasonably human, i mean) draco really is, and everything will click into place. i mean-- if he isn't really a pompous pathetic jerk, what's the hold-up?
    this just struck me as funny, in a way.
    plenty of perfectly sane, pleasant people don't get it on with The Boy Who Lived, or anyone else for that matter. in fact, in the `real world', whatever that is, you don't have to be a stupid git to not be getting any play. i mean, it's not even that draco is -nice-, here. he seems vaguely sarcastic and cynical, but pretty intelligent and observant, somewhat more so than normal. people like that -especially-, are misunderstood and unlucky in love. like say, probably the author. well, a number of authors, anyway.

i wonder why this sort of draco rubs me the wrong way. i can't just say, well, he's ooc, and leave it at that. i mean, say, snitch!draco is pretty ooc, but do i care? hell no. he's hilarious and so fun to read, it doesn't matter. i think the thing is, this is what i would say is the quintessential mary-sue!draco. that's what irks me.
    i'm probably guilty of doing this with some extent-- at least in the beginning i was. i'm pretty careful to try to remember that draco is like, nothing like me, and nothing like anyone i know, except possibly the uber-mean incarnation of my ex, and my childhood awed fear-fantasy of my father (this would be lucius, which gives me slight insight into draco). anyway, my harry is probably a mary-sue as far as being too introspective and eerily cynical. ergh.

a -lot- of people write their characters as preternaturally perceptive, especially if they're writing first-person pov (a real pitfall all by itself). not so much that the character actually seems to be -objective- and aware of the thoughts and feelings of others-- no, it remains self-absorbed. what i mean is, aware of -themselves-.

most people aren't all that aware of themselves. i am, and i would imagine a number of writers are, but people like draco malfoy, Slytherin Prince of Denial? hell no.

( more rambling on the perils of first-person pov and making draco too `human' & so on.... )

    anyway.
    *sigh* once again, i've posted this here instead of in metapotter. hee. the lure of greater readership is really nothing to sneeze at ><;;