[HPforGrownups] Draco (again)

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 5866



Catlady wrote:

> Unfortunately, the world is full of people who see their friends and
> associates kill someone in cold blood and DON'T get distressed -- maybe
> even think it was kewl. I suspect the canonical Draco is in that
> category, as he was not displeased to see Cedric's dead body. It is that
> scene at the end of GoF that discourages me of the possibility of
> redeeming Draco.

But when he saw cedric, and possibly even while he was on the train being
all obnoxious, he didn't know that his father was actually persent, not for
the death of cedric, but for the multiple attempts by Voldemort to kill
Harry immediately afterwards. And we really have no idea what his actual
reaction was. All we know is that while he was in public (the leaving feast)
he did stand to toast Cedric, and did not stand to toast Harry, and in those
circumstances, we can assume that whatever he did do, Lucius would find out
about, so whatever he really thought at the Leaving Feast, he would have to
act, outwardly, the way lucius would expect him to.
I think it must be different to see someone kill another person in cold
blood, compared to seeing a dead body while you're in a crowd of hysterical
people.