Is Draco Evil & a true enemy of Harrys'?

[cassandraclaire73 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25085

Barb: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. 
(snip) 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."
> > 

Yes, Lucius would have stood; I've always wondered why Draco didn't. 
Odd move on his part. I'm still of the opinion he's pretty clueless 
as to what his father's evil machinations are exactly, although I'm 
postive he knows his father *is* involved in evil machinations of 
some sort. He just doesn't know the details.

Yes, Draco's done a lot of lousy things, but I maintain he hasn't 
done anything unforgivable yet, although not through lack of trying. 
I mean, we forgive Sirius, who, at about the same age, sent a fellow 
student on a wild goose chase which he *knew* ended at the lair of a 
werewolf who would have torn said student in half and splattered his 
entrails all over the walls. But Sirius is a Good Guy. Mostly because 
his plot was foiled, as Malfoy's usually are, and Snape survived. I'm 
not saying Draco will be redeemed, or even that he deserves to be, 
just that if JKR wanted to redeem him, she could. He hasn't done 
anything so bad that as a character, he is completely unforgivable 
and unsaveable.  



Cindy: " 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"

Again, above comment about Sirius applies. What Sirius did was just 
about as bad as anything Malfoy's done; getting a fellow student 
(possibly) killed is in my book worse than getting a fellow student
(possibly) expelled. Also, we have no idea what Moody might have 
thought about Draco's attempt to curse Harry, since he was locked in 
a trunk at the time. All we know is Barty Crouch Jr's opinion on 
Draco's curse, and since he had every reason in the world to hate 
Draco and is to boot one of the most evil Death Eaters who ever 
lived, I'm not sure how much stock we want to put in his opinion.


Cassandra