Draco as Student

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 17288

Hi --

Magda Grantwich wrote:

> It's a logical spiral to say that because the canon doesn't
> explicitly state ABC, then an opposing view like XYZ must or was
> likely to be so.

As far as I know, no one has said that XYZ *must* or is *likely* to be
so.  Some of the alternate interpretations of say Draco are just
possibilities.  They might be just as likely to pan out as your belief
that he's just a swarmy git who has no depth whatsoever.  If there's
textual backup for either position (and there seems to be), then each
interpretation has *some* likelihood of being proven true in the later
books.

> I think we can assume things from the canon and one of those things is
> that Draco is not a student knocking himself out for high academic
> honours.

Why is your assumption any more valid than Heidi's assumption that he
might just as easily be a really bright kid academically?  As best I can
tell, there are arguments that cut both ways.  There's more than one
valid interpretation of most things IMO.

Penny



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