UnFunny Things; Perspective; Chapter 37 Comments - LONG

heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu
Tue Apr 10 17:29:18 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 16277

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> I entirely agree with Naama.  In the canon there is precious little 
> about Draco Malfoy that is good.  I can recall no saving graces, 
and 
> no setup foreshadowong any manner of redemption.  This is in 
> contradistinction to many fanfics, where speculation is rife.  I do 
> feel that some of the posters have been mixing apples with oranges, 
so 
> to speak.  I would be very interested in any citation in the JKR 
books 
> to the contrary.

There are citations to the books. They are veiled and subtle, but 
there are places in the books that have been published to date which 
would support JKR if she does decide to have a manner of redemption 
for Draco in future books. 

Doing this without the books (and without Cassie to call on for 
assistance) - but here goes:
1. In all of PoA and GoF, when Draco comes into their compartment on 
the train, Crookshanks never reacts badly to him. Now, if Crookshanks 
has *no* kneazle blood, this is clearly irrelevant, but if the car is 
part kneazle and therefore in posession of "an uncanny ability to 
detect unsavoury or suspicious characters..." then the lack of 
reaction to Draco means he is neither unsavoury or suspicious. 
2. It is *arguable* that when he saw Hermione in the woods at the 
World Cup, he was actually trying to warn her to get out of the way 
of the Death Eaters. It's about as arguable and as supported by canon 
evidence as any conclusion that Hermione likes Ron is. 
3. On the train on the way home in GoF, when he says some things that 
are clearly, on the surface, very nasty, with regard to Muggle-borns, 
he actually uses the sentence, "I warned you!" JKR could have just as 
easily had him say, "I told you!" or "I said it, didn't I?" - but she 
chose the word "warned..." Could that be foreshadowing? It's 
impossible to know now....but it's impossible to know *for sure* 
about almost anything in books 5, 6 and 7.
4. Professor Snape seems to trust him. In book 4, Snape accepts 
Malfoy's statement about what happened when he & harry were trying to 
curse each other. *IF* you believe that Snape has Dumbledore and the 
Old Crowd's best interests at heart, it is possible that he would 
support a completely evil and unredeemable Draco, in the interest of 
getting Draco to change his ways and be on Snape's side, but it is 
equally probable that Snape does not see Draco as being completely 
evil and unredeemable *at this point*. If he's not unredeemable, then 
it is possible that redemption and a turning away from Lucius and the 
Death Eaters (tm) will happen in the future. 





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