[HPforGrownups] Re: Compassion for Draco?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 16378

Jim Ferer wrote:

> Echo:"Am I the only person in the world that just wants to give Draco
> a big hug and mother him?

Probably. And I hope you've had your shots.

> How might Draco be saved? Maybe, just maybe, when Draco sees evil up
> close and personal, and some of the blood spatters his own robes, the
> reality of it will wake him up. Then he might become a reluctant good
> guy, like Snape. Up till now it's been "the bad guys are cooler"
> abstract kind of thing. I'm not holding my breath.

About the only shred of possibility I've seen for this is Draco's
reaction in book 1, in the Forbidden Forest, when he ran screaming from
the thing drinking the unicorn blood. That might have been the first
time he'd really confronted a truly evil thing, and he was terrified and
fled.

However, given that that was in book 1, and he's still a nasty little
*hmmm* through the end of book 4, I don't think the scare acted as any
sort of real deterrent or wake-up call.

--Amanda


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