Thanks! Javert was always one of my favourite characters in the musical for some reason, and the book includes lots of other interesting details -- like the fact that, far from obsessively hunting Valjean for years, he got seconded to Paris and almost totally forgot about that single old case amid the pressure of all the new ones. Which is what one would naturally expect :-p And also, when he does initially become suspicious of the mysterious 'beggar who gives money away', he fails to arrest him because he isn't prepared to arrest a man without cast-iron evidence: Javert's rigid principles work both ways...
The novel explores a lot of non-romantic relationships between various of the characters: indeed, these are in the overwhelming majority (Marius/Cosette is more or less the only canonical exception, along with Éponine's unreciprocated attraction to Marius). But fan-fiction tends to interest itself solely in the sexual possibilities. I really don't see Javert in that light, but I can see him grimly accepting the task of making an upright citizen out of a child destined for the gutter -- and being unprepared to cope with receiving affection in return!
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Date: 2016-02-07 08:37 pm (UTC)And also, when he does initially become suspicious of the mysterious 'beggar who gives money away', he fails to arrest him because he isn't prepared to arrest a man without cast-iron evidence: Javert's rigid principles work both ways...
The novel explores a lot of non-romantic relationships between various of the characters: indeed, these are in the overwhelming majority (Marius/Cosette is more or less the only canonical exception, along with Éponine's unreciprocated attraction to Marius). But fan-fiction tends to interest itself solely in the sexual possibilities. I really don't see Javert in that light, but I can see him grimly accepting the task of making an upright citizen out of a child destined for the gutter -- and being unprepared to cope with receiving affection in return!