[HPforGrownups] Re: Compassion for Draco?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 16396


--- Indigo <indigo at indigosky.net> wrote:
> --- 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.

Which is exactly why Draco is going to be shocked to find that
Lucius' relationship with Lord V. is not that of equals.  He would
not like to see his father grovelling to anyone.

Actually, we're not disagreeing at all.

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