Draco brilliant? (was Re: Draco as student/teacher's pet)

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No: HPFGUIDX 17131

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Yeah ... I'm still here.  :--)
> 
Well, your loss is our gain, in this case... <g>

> > Magda: 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.
> 
> Ah, but he could be naturally very bright.  Maybe if he was seen
> dragging lots of books around, he'd be Number One *instead of*
> Hermione.  Plenty of very bright people do quite well in academia
> without ever seemingly cracking a book.  We also don't see Draco 
100% of
> the time either.  I don't think lack of references to Draco with 
books
> is at all conclusive.
> 

There's no evidence against the suggestion that Draco is Number Two, 
but as to him being very bright? We hear a lot of his comments, his 
witticisms, and I have to say that he did not impress me as 
particularly bright. He's not slow or dumb, either - he's medium 
bright, maybe? In any case, his success at insulting and hurting is 
not due to wit, IMO, mostly to lack of compassion and decency. 
Imitating Harry faint? Making fun of Ron's family, of Ron's mother? I 
don't remember any dazzling show of wit - just nastiness. And when 
one of the troika retaliate, he's usually at a loss to answer back. 

Sorry, it sounds like a rant, but I really hate Draco and his like 
(i.e., cowardly, cold-hearted, whiny, lying bullies).

Naama