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A beautiful piece - especially the ending, which suggests another Austenian parallel with Anne Elliot in PERSUASION: "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
And yes, part of what makes Lizzie so terrific is that she learns the dangers of too-hasty judgements during the course of P&P, and resolves to think before shooting her mouth off in future. That's a lesson Rowling's redheads never need to learn (because snap judgements are what make them feisty and lovable, right?) In P&P Lizzie was fallible and needed to change. In the HP series, Lily is the benchmark of what is decent and true, and if anyone annoys her that's their fault, not hers.
And yes, part of what makes Lizzie so terrific is that she learns the dangers of too-hasty judgements during the course of P&P, and resolves to think before shooting her mouth off in future. That's a lesson Rowling's redheads never need to learn (because snap judgements are what make them feisty and lovable, right?) In P&P Lizzie was fallible and needed to change. In the HP series, Lily is the benchmark of what is decent and true, and if anyone annoys her that's their fault, not hers.