Harry and Draco

[hfakhro at nyc.rr.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17459

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Alexandra Y. Kwan" <litalex at y...> wrote:
> You have to stop teasing us slashers this way <g>.  The first 
moment I saw
> the words 'Draco,' 'Harry,' and 'relationship'....

My profuse apologies to D/H slashers - didn't mean to tease!! LOL!

So the consensus seems to be that because Harry is famous Draco might 
want to be friends with him. I see the interaction in the robe shop 
differently than the interaction on the train. In the robe shop, 
Draco is just being friendly to a boy he doesn't know - he doesn't 
find out that he was Harry Potter until the train. So my question was 
why would he even want Harry as a friend (that is, on the train, 
after knowing who Harry is)? I understand that he's famous, but from 
what we know about the Malfoys I would have thought that he would 
want to keep his distance from Harry, while perhaps pretending to 
like him, as his father advises him to do. Perhaps it is jealousy 
that he grows to hate Harry or that he feels insulted. But I think 
there must be something else there; something that makes Draco think 
that Harry would be his friend despite being who he is, but I find it 
very out of character for Draco to assume that. Unless, and this is 
my conclusion, that he just doesn't know the first thing about how to 
deal with people. And again, this doesn't click into place completely 
for me.

Also, since Harry didn't know
> much about the Wizarding world at that point, perhaps Draco was 
playing on
> Harry not knowing which side Draco was on, or even what side Harry 
himself
> was supposed to be on.

But nobody knows that Harry didn't grow up with the knowledge of what 
happened to him and the side he was supposed to be on - except 
Hagrid. I think Draco presumes that Harry knew who he was and what 
side he was *supposed* to be on.

Thanks!!