[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco's Redemption

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 23834

Kavitha Kannan wrote:

> However, I still think he may switch sides.  But, it would be through
> something involving family honor, which I think the Malfoys would be
> big on.  Perhaps Voldemort will kill Malfoy or Narcissa, and Draco
> will take it upon himself to hold blood fued and go after Voldie, and
> so he may fight alongside Harry, but he wouldn't be fighting under
> Harry, and maybe not even with his forces.  It would be more of
> a "the enemy of my enemy is an ally, but I still hate his guts.  He's
> just the lesser of two evils now.  When i'm done with Voldie, I'll go
> spit on Harry, but the alliance is to valuable to waste over personal
> enmity right now.  Besides, revenge is better cold." You know, that
> sort of thing.

That would also line up very well with the one time I ever
detected a flash of real sympathy toward Harry in Draco.  Now,
this may be just my weird take on the matter; I know that most
people feel that when Draco tells Harry (who doesn't know what
the heck he's talking about, at that point), "If it were me, I'd
want revenge!" he's just trying to egg Harry on to do something
dangerous (go after Sirius Black).  But somehow I read that line
as Draco being, for once, perfectly sincere.  If it were him --
if someone had betrayed his parents to their deaths -- he would
want revenge.  And if Harry felt the same way, Draco would
perfectly understand in a way that Hermione and even Ron might
not.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>