That silly little box! (Some SPOILERS)

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "kagar_home" <kagar at k...> wrote:
> For anyone who saw the COS movie: What was that little box that 
> Draco had in the Slytherin common room?! (When Harry & Ron were 
> there to find out what Malfoy knew about the Heir.) And what was 
> inside it? I don't remember that being in the book. It must have 
> some significance or it wouldn't have made it into the film. Any 
> ideas??!!


bboy_mn comments:

It think first and foremost it was a movie 'ploy' (for lack of a
better word). It was simply something to fill out the scene instead of
just having Draco sitting there reciting his lines. Movies are a
visual medium [really they are ;)], and so, it just gives you
something to see when there is really nothing going on but some simple
basic dialog, and it adds a sense of character; it gives Draco a
visual personality.

Now to address Klepto!Draco. I think what the movie is trying to
portray is the sense of priviledge that Draco has. A sense that he is
the center of the universe and that all things exist to serve him. A
sense that when he walks through, the world steps aside. Surely, you
must have met people like that in your own life. I've met dozens of
them; people who for some warped reason saw themselves as above the
rest of the bland and mundane world and therefore deserving to have
the world yeild to their every whim.

In Flourish and Blotts, Draco is standing on a stairs looking at a
book, before he steps down, he tears a page out of the book and stuffs
it in his pocket. Does he see it as stealing? I think not. I think his
attitude is that he is the great Draco Malfoy and what Draco wants,
Draco gets. He sees no reason why he shouldn't have this page is he
wants it, and also sees no reason why a person of quality such as
himself, should have to waste his time dealing with store clerks and
check out lines. He is far to important for those mundane things, so
he takes it. Afterall, in his mind, if he wants it, it belongs to him.

Now we are in the Slytherin Commons room with poly:Crabbe and
poly:Goyle. Draco sees the present, and he wants it. What Draco wants,
Draco gets. It's not a cunning plot, or a desire to steal, or the
thought of having what belongs to someone else. He is simply
excersizing his priviledge of being so far above the other mundane
riffraff of life, that who this actually belongs to is really not a
matter of his concern. He is Draco Malfoy and that alone is enough to
make it belong to him.

He is very casual about it. He treats neither act as if it was of any
significants at all. And being Draco Malfoy, powerful and priviledged,
I think if the person the present belong to, saw Draco take it, he
would think it was better to let Draco have it than risk getting on
Draco's bad side. By doing this, the true owner of the gift, only
re-enforces Draco's sense of power and priviledge.

Just a few thoughts on the subject.

bboy_mn