30 Day HP Meme, Day 22, 23, 24

[featherxquill]

22. Your favourite villain

HP villains are pretty cool. Voldemort is a pretty scary villain. A bit cardboard, but pretty scary. Bellatrix is batshit crazy, and kind of attractive in that way cruel, sadistic women can be to the people intrigued by them. Umbridge is terrifying because she is so real, the most 'real-world' of the villains in the series. Fenrir Greyback is skin-crawlingly skeevy. Seriously, Rowling's choice to put an obvious metaphor for a child rapist into her children's series was just gah, yes. He is the most disgusting villain in the series, in the visceral sense of 'disgusting'.

My favourites villains, though, are the Malfoys. I love them because they're the ones she humanised. All those others I mentioned are so black and white; caricatures, if scary ones. I love the fact that Jo showed us, in the Malfoys, that there actually can be shades of grey. She showed us a family who believe wholeheartedly in the ideologies of their leader, but had perhaps found themselves in too deep with the actual figurehead (I don't believe that they ever wanted him to come back.) She showed us people who were nasty to others they considered less than them, but were at the same time a loyal and loving family. They, along with Snape, are the only Deatheaters we get a sense of humanity from, and I really love that Jo chose to write them that way.


23. Share some HP icons

That I made? I'm guessing so, because I couldn't even begin to 'share icons' if they included every HP icon I'd ever seen that I adored.

It's funny, because most of my more recent icons (read: better) aren't actually HP, but here are a few I've done that I quite like:



- Made this when the Merlin's Apprentice promo pics came out, and I though Miranda would actually have made a pretty cool Bellatrix also.


Haven't made a trio icon before or since, but I like this.




Yay, Rita! That first on has turned out to be quite a useful icon ;)

And, of course:


For a little while, this one was everywhere on my flist, and I saw the term 'McSquee!' being used in actual posts/comments. Which filled me with glee.

24. Rant about Steve Kloves something

I really have no strong opinion on Steve Kloves.


Previous Answers


01. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter
02. Your favorite book
03. What house would you be in?
04. Your favorite movie
05. Wizard Rock: discuss
06. Your favorite character(s)
07. Song that reminds you of HP
08. Your favorite ship(s)
09. Fanfiction: discuss
10. Favorite book moment(s)
11. Character you're crushing on
12. Favorite movie scene
13. Least favorite character(s)
14. Moments in the books/movies that made you cry
15. Whatever tickles your fancy
16. How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
17. Your favorite celebs from the movies or fandom
18. If you could change one thing about canon, what would it be?
19. A favorite fanart
20. A favorite quote
21. How has the HP fandom connected you to other fandoms, interests, or people?
22. Your favorite villain
23. Share some HP icons
24. Rant about Steve Kloves something
25. Song that reminds you of HP
26. What aspect of the books has been best translated to film?
27. What aspect of the books has been most poorly translated to film?
28. Hogwarts subject you would most like to take
29. Favorite location
30. Whatever tickles your fancy

Comments

[minervas-eule.livejournal.com]

Your Miranda-icons and the "McSquee" are fantastic! Make me smile everytime!
And I am with you about the feeling that the Malfoys would have been much happier, if Voldemort had not come back... they are not in control of their lives anymore when he does...

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

The Malfoys are a great choice. You're right, they're human villains. Caught up in things that go way beyond their original ideas. I mean, without Voldemort they would just have been very unpleasant snobs, dreadful to their house-elves, but not much more.

Love the icons.

[vane-nt.livejournal.com]

I loved your comments about the villains. My views on Voldemort are different from yours, but other than that, I feel the same way you do about Bellatrix, Umbridge, Fenrir and the Malfoys.

Your icons are so cool! *__*

[tetleythesecond]

<3 the Rita icons!

And I like your thoughts on the Malfoys. It's true, they have shades of grey, they are portrayed with their doubts and progression, I liked the scene of the sisters in Spinner's End, and how the Malfoys are portrayed in the battle -- it's plausible, and it shows that redemption is possible.

(What happened to the Malfoys is one of the many things I'd have loved to see in an Epilogue.)