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So, y'all* get a load of this? http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/video-j-k-rowling-admits-deathly-hallows-draft-had-snape-vs-harry-not-mcgonagall-86207/
I don’t like the marginalisation of women when the fighting breaks out. We get to fight too. I really wanted that. In fact, there was an earlier draft... I know there was at one point, it was Harry who took on Snape in that confrontation, and I really didn't want that to happen.
In the book Minerva McGonagall was the one who does it, and for me it was very important that she did that.
I agree very much that the women characters ought to fight as well and I think everyone reading this probably enjoyed seeing what a badass Minerva was, but on the other hand I've got to wonder what we'd have got if it had stayed Harry on the other end of that duel. (One hopes it would have been more than a repeat of the end of HBP where Severus hands the kid his arse on a platter!) It's not as simple as just the change in meaning from it being a female instead of a male; it being Harry (as opposed to another male teacher, like Flitwick) would have changed the whole ensuing action considerably.
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* I settled on just the pronoun here because I was getting way too caught up on how I might spell the mushed up contraction of "did you all" that I was actually thinking: j'y'all? d'j'y'all? djy'all?
I don’t like the marginalisation of women when the fighting breaks out. We get to fight too. I really wanted that. In fact, there was an earlier draft... I know there was at one point, it was Harry who took on Snape in that confrontation, and I really didn't want that to happen.
In the book Minerva McGonagall was the one who does it, and for me it was very important that she did that.
I agree very much that the women characters ought to fight as well and I think everyone reading this probably enjoyed seeing what a badass Minerva was, but on the other hand I've got to wonder what we'd have got if it had stayed Harry on the other end of that duel. (One hopes it would have been more than a repeat of the end of HBP where Severus hands the kid his arse on a platter!) It's not as simple as just the change in meaning from it being a female instead of a male; it being Harry (as opposed to another male teacher, like Flitwick) would have changed the whole ensuing action considerably.
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* I settled on just the pronoun here because I was getting way too caught up on how I might spell the mushed up contraction of "did you all" that I was actually thinking: j'y'all? d'j'y'all? djy'all?
Y'all come back now!
Date: November 8th, 2011 02:25 am (UTC)From:If they'd changed the book version and made the confrontation between Harry and Snape, and then had Harry win, it would have been incredibly unrealistic, IMO. All through the books (and movies, for that matter), Snape had consistently demonstrated he could hold his own against much stronger opponents than a seventh-year student. I think you're right; Snape would have handed Harry's own ass to him.