Compassion for Draco?

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 16389

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> > 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... 
> > Up till now it's been "the bad guys are cooler" 
> > abstract kind of thing. I'm not holding my breath.
> 
> I suspect that he also doesn't really understand the power
> relationship between Lord V. and the DE's.  He's used to seeing
> Lucius in positions of authority and respect, being treated
> deferentially by one and all due to the family wealth and rank.  The
> first sight of a cringing Daddy grovelling to Lord V. is going to be
> a big jolt.
> 
>
I disagree, but the Circle gets the square. :)

I think that Draco knows full well what his father's position entails.

He's threatened at least once to go running to Daddy and have this 
person or that person sacked.  So he knows that Lucius is willing to 
do underhanded things to get rid of people he doesn't want around.

Plus, he also knows what Lucius has in the house, given his behaviour 
in Knockturn Alley.  He knows that Knockturn Alley is the Dark Arts 
section of the area behind the leaky cauldron.

He may have been faking to get attention because he lacks it, but it 
was also in part just plain old malice and stupidity.  If he'd been 
listening, he'd have known not to insult the hippogriff.  Maybe he 
heard it, and decided Hagridd coudln't possibly know what he was 
talking about.  Again, this shows his disregard for anyone outside 
what his perceived circle of knowledge and people says.

Indigo