Is Draco Evil & a true enemy of Harrys'?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cassandraclaire73 at y... wrote:

> 
> 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.>

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<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.>

Draco is definitely a character many of us like to discuss.  Here, I 
must agree with Cassandra.  Draco is one hell of a brat, but that's 
all he is.  He's spoiled, sulky, arrogant and clearly jealous of 
Harry.  No one can say he's made up of sugar and spice.  However, I 
still stand by my (many) statements that Draco is nothing more than 
Daddy's shadow.  We still have yet to see him stand on his own.  
Thinking he is better than Mudbloods is what he learned at home.  
Don't we all have beliefs that our parents have passed down to us?  My 
parents have taught me quite well, but there are some opinions they 
have that I had to experience to disagree with.  Draco has yet to do 
that.  He has had no time to get to know someone like Hermione and 
other Muggle borns.    

Once again, I cannot say that I think Draco will have a change of 
heart; I just have to say that Draco needs to be in a position where 
he must make a decision with no help from Lucius.  We've already seen 
what a sniveling coward he is (the Forbidden Forest in SS and the 
dementor in PoA).  Trust me, people have a way of changing when Mom 
and Dad aren't there to be guides.  If Draco decides to be a DE, I'd 
like to think that it will be through his own thinking, just as if he 
decides to be good.

--jenny from ravenclaw *************************