Is Draco Evil & a true enamy of Harrys'?

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25077

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., cassandraclaire at m... wrote:
> While this was mostly true for the first and second books, he does 
> manage to make some trouble in the third and fourth books.  He gets 
> Buckbeak sentenced to death because of overplaying the 
> hippogriff "attack."  This causes Hagrid a great deal of grief. (I 
> think Malfoy and Hagrid will have a confrontation before Malfoy and 
> Harry--and if something happens to Hagrid, as I think it will, it 
may 
> very well be at the hands of Draco Malfoy, screaming self-defense 
or 
> some such thing.)  
> 
> Then, in the fourth book, he plays informant to Rita Skeeter.  This 
> causes a LOT of trouble!  He's also not too bright sometimes (or 
> politic); at the beginning of CoS, Harry overhears Lucius telling 
his 
> son (in the shop in Knockturn Alley) that he can't afford for 
people 
> to hear him saying bad things about Harry Potter, who is regarded 
as 
> a hero by most wizards (paraphrase).  You'd think Draco Malfoy 
would 
> understand that the same thing would surely apply to the late 
Cedric 
> Diggory.  He also doesn't have the sense to stand at the leaving 
> feast and toast Harry with the others.  His father would have done 
> it; he's a PR man all the way.    
> 
> Thus, he's more of a troublemaker than evil so far, but with the 
> comments he made on the train, he seems to be getting worse, not 
> better.
> 
> --Barb

And if we are going to catalogue the evil things Draco has done 
rather than said, I'd add his attempts to get Harry expelled, 
attempting to curse Harry in GoF when his back was turned (heaven 
only knows what kind of curse it was, but Moody sure didn't like it), 
impersonating a dementor to get Harry to fall off his broom and 
suffer serious injury or worse, and his cheating during the Quidditch 
matches (grabbing Harry's broom).

No, Draco is an evil dark wizard in training, he's getting hands-on 
lessons from one of the best in the business Lucius, and I suppose 
he'll get what's coming.

Cindy, wishing she had more dark wizards to despise