Draco -- Aryan snob

[spicoli323]

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From: spicoli323
Subject: Re: Draco -- Aryan snob
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Date: 8/24/00 11:34 am  (ET)

Ooh--finally a non-movie-related topic to comment on. While I think and
hope that Draco has the potential to turn out to be pretty good after all,
there hasn't been much foreshadowing to that effect. I think it is more
likely that Harry's "other" archnemesis at Hogwarts--Snape--turns out
to be a lot better than we have seen; and anyway, it is pretty certain
already that Snape is a "good" guy, and even a heroic one, risking his
life to spy on the Death Eaters. Malfoy, on the other hand, may choose to
follow in his father's footsteps--he already believes in the "pure blood"
doctrine that seems to distinguish Voldemort and his supporters. I think
I have mentioned before, though, that Malfoy's position at Hogwarts may be
drastically altered now that his father is openly supporting Voldemort. In
my opinion it is about equally likely that Malfoy will choose either
side. I am not sure the other examples of fathers vs. sons (I assume you
meant the Riddles and the Crouches?) are relevant to the Malfoy situation.
Do important things necessarily come in fours in the Harry Potter World? I
can think of three important examples of this at the moment. The first
two, the founders of Hogwarts and the Marauders, have in common that one
of the four eventually ended up betraying the other three. In the other
case, the four Triwizard Champions, there were originally supposed to
be three, and the addition of the fourth resulted in horrible results of
which we have only seen the beginning. So maybe in actuality three is the
important number here, and when things come in fours instead of threes,
it often ends badly.