what she means:
i wonder if people understand javert is supposed to be one of "les miserables" aka the miserable of society. he's as much a victim of society as any of the other character in the novel. do they know javert was never meant to be a villain, but another victim? is it willful misinterpratation im order to have an easy villain to blame the tragedies on? he is described as a fanatic, but always with the best possible human traits: his sin lies within his error, and hugo describes it as being pitiful and miserable; it caused him to kill himself as soon as he realised it. why simplify him to a villain when he was never written as such? the villain in les miserables is society itself, and how it ruins the people who live in it. javert is one of les miserables why make him the villain i dont
”jean valjean, his iron bar in hand, walked slowly towards the bed of fantine. on reaching it, he turned and said to javert in a voice that could scarecly be heard ‘i advise you not to disturb me now.’ nothing is more certain than that javert trembled.”
javert is completely aware that valjean could beat the god fearing shit out of him and i am so fucking here for that.