What does it do to her to see a character that she loves, for people to express sheer hate – or vice versa?
From the joint Leaky/Mugglenet interview (July 2005): It amuses me. It honestly amuses me. People have been waxing lyrical (in letters) about Draco Malfoy, and I think that’s the only time when it stopped amusing me and started almost worrying me. I’m trying to clearly distinguish between Tom Felton, who is a good looking young boy, and Draco, who, whatever he looks like, is not a nice man. It’s a romantic, but unhealthy, and unfortunately all too common delusion of – delusion, there you go – of girls, and you (nods to Melissa) will know this, that they are going to change someone. And that persists through many women’s lives, till their death bed, and it is uncomfortable and unhealthy and it actually worried me a little bit, to see young girls swearing undying devotion to this really imperfect character, because there must be an element in there, that “I’d be the one who (changes him).” I mean, I understand the psychology of it, but it is pretty unhealthy. So, a couple of times I have
