In her essay, Vera Cuntz-Leng draws on feminist film theory to explore the gaze politics and male objectification operating in the Harry Potter movies. Divided into two sections, the volume addresses both the fidelity of adaptation and the transmedia adaptations that have evolved around the creation of the books and movies. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.
As a result, the production and reception of both novel and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating a fanbase who accessed the series first through the books, first through the movies, and in various other combinations.
The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary phenomenon. Or maybe we just want to believe Draco was a good person deep down who was just corrupted by his evil father.Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Ageis an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. *sob* So it's not hard to imagine Rowling hinting that Draco slipped Hermione the page.Įither way, this theory goes down as one of the more believable ones. Rowling was known to share secrets about the book with the movie producers ( like telling Alan Rickman about Snape's love for Lily Potter ). He couldn't kill Dumbledore even though Voldemort threatened him with death if he didn't, and he didn't reveal Harry's identity to Lucious when he was being held captive at the Malfoys'. Draco's always punked out on being evil in the end anyway. After all, Indie-band asks, "Why would Hermione, with her love and care for books almost on par with the librarian, rip a page out of a book she could have just checked out? My guess is she didn't find it in the library."Įven though Draco's ripping the page didn't happen in the book, and Hermione did seem to make the connection to the basilisk herself, the theory still resonates as Draco's action seems like a deliberate addition to the movie. Indie-band thinks that when Malfoy realized the havoc the basilisk was wreaking on Hogwarts and its students, he got worried and had to help in the only way he could - by somehow slipping Hermione the ripped piece of paper on basilisks. "I think Draco knew more about what was going on, or at least figured more out, than he let on to his friends." " the one who was apparently talking freely of the dangers that would face the Muggle-borns year," they wrote. "The poster theorizes that Draco was curious about basilisks because his dad, Lucious, had been talking about it at home. The poster theorizes that Draco was curious about basilisks because his dad, Lucious, had been talking about it at home. He chooses to rip a particular page with a pointed glance out of a book. He's not poor, his family doesn't discourage learning. "If he wanted the book, he could have just bought the book himself. "Why would Malfoy rip a page out of a random book?" the poster asks. The theory stems from a small moment in the movie that didn't happen in the book: When Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys went to Flourish and Blotts to buy their textbooks and ran into the Malfoys, Draco can be spotted glancing around the shop to see if anyone is looking before ripping a page out of a book. Everyone assumed that Hermione was the one who figured it out, but a Tumblr user named Indie-band theorizes that Draco might have had a helping hand in the discovery!
Remember in Chamber of Secrets when an entity no one knew was terrorizing the school and petrifying its students? Well, Harry and Ron only figured out it was a basilisk when they found the torn piece of paper in Hermione's petrified hand. And now, one Potterhead's theory might change the way you look at Draco Malfoy forever. Even though he tried to ruin Harry Potter's life at every turn and strived to be the best Deatheater he could be to impress his father, he was never really all that great at being evil. One of the most interesting characters in the Harry Potter fandom is, without a doubt, Draco Malfoy.