Oh, you're absolutely right about this going so differently in the book. That 'whooping' description is quite chilling, isn't it?
I don't feel the way it's told in the film is OOC for book Draco, but I agree his moment of total realisation comes later in the books and that it's very effective that way. However I don't think Draco's heart was ever completely in it - qv his inept plots to kill Dumbledore before he meets him on the tower - in fact I would almost say that the whooping was more OOC for the overall way he's portrayed in HBP! I think it conveys his emotional fragmentation and confusion quite well. We see him in such a tumult of reactions to everything - I don't think jubilation is recurring theme for him to what's happening, at all.
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Date: 2013-10-12 10:50 pm (UTC)I don't feel the way it's told in the film is OOC for book Draco, but I agree his moment of total realisation comes later in the books and that it's very effective that way. However I don't think Draco's heart was ever completely in it - qv his inept plots to kill Dumbledore before he meets him on the tower - in fact I would almost say that the whooping was more OOC for the overall way he's portrayed in HBP! I think it conveys his emotional fragmentation and confusion quite well. We see him in such a tumult of reactions to everything - I don't think jubilation is recurring theme for him to what's happening, at all.