[HPforGrownups] Draco as student/teacher's pet

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 17126

> While a lot of what Dinah says, about Draco not "work[ing] for
> achievements" and not seeming to be a rgeat student are perfectly 
> reasonable conjectures based on canon, these things are not 
> explicitly stated in canon. In other
> words, it's just as likely that when Lucius Malfoy was criticising
> Draco's marks in the begining of CoS, he was saying that he 
> expected Draco to be at the top of the class - number one - but 
> Hermione was, and therefore he was
> merely number two, or something close to it. 

I don't think so.  If Draco is Number Two (or for the sake of
argument even in the Top Ten), then there would be references in the
books to Draco in the library or dragging twenty books around like
Hermione does.  There is nothing to indicate that he is anything more
than a regular student.  

> If Lucius is the type who
> thinks that anything less than number one is meaningless and
> useless, then he could slam Draco for having lousy marks when the 
> only problem with them is that they're not better than Muggle-born 
> Hermione. Otherwise, why would
> he specifically criticise Draco for being beaten by Hermione,
> instead of saying something like "And so many mudbloods got better 
> marks than you...."

Any textual backup for this?  Does Lucius anywhere think being Number
One is the be-all and end-all?  He's got a eugenics obsession but
other than that...


> His place on the quidditch team *might* have been bought because of
> age, but not skill. 

It was bought because of first-class, top-of-the-line racing brooms.


> I haven't seen him relying on Snape to keep himself out of trouble
> - if he really could do that, then Snape would've at least tried a 
> way to get Draco
> out of that forebidden forrest trip back during first year.

No teacher would interfere with another teacher's detention
assignment.  Snape wouldn't have tried.

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