Is Draco Evil & a true enemy of Harrys'?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., hoshi_hime55 at h... wrote:
>   I really don't think that we have enough information to judge 
> if Draco is evil or not. We know that, on the outside, he's 
> mean, sarcastic and cold but does that really tell us that he's 
> evil?  We know is father is a Death Eater but that doesn't mean 
> that Draco is one or wants to be. 


I've always figured that Draco is just a prejudiced, spoiled bully 
who probably would run and hide the first time he got "dirtied" by 
any kind of true evil.  He just wants to look good to (or pattern) 
his father, who means everything to him.  And since Daddy is a Death 
Eater, Draco would probably want to be one, if only connect with 
him.  But since Draco was an infant when Harry "defeated" Voldemort, 
Draco has no idea what the DE's really represent, or what true evil 
really is.


> I also think that Rowling will severely hurt her popularity if 
> she makes Draco two dimensional and evil. I know that I would be 
> annoyed. 


I'd have no problem if Draco were evil - but not two-dimensional.  
Give us a fleshed out baddie!!!  I think it's possible that Draco 
will have to decide if he wants to be truly evil in future books.  
Since Draco is a Slytherin, it will be interesting to see where his 
ambition takes him.


>   I think that you may be right with the Ginny thing. Draco will 
> probably need to fall in love with someone that we like in order to 
> make his becoming good more believable. It might not be Ginny 
> though, maybe it's Hermione. I hope that doesn't happen; it would 
> break my H/H ship! 


Oh wow.  Can't even think about Draco & Ginny.  Going blind now.  
Disrupting my iron-clad H/G ship....But I'd like to see Draco find 
the love of a "good woman".  And BTW - what's the status of Percy & 
Penelope, I ask you?


>   Since you mentioned Crabbe and Goyle, I'm going to say that I 
> don't think that they're evil, just stupid. While it is possible to 
> be both, I don't think that it's likely. If they did join the Death 
> Eaters, it would just be because someone told them to, not because 
> they were really evil. 


Since we now know (thanks to GoF, Ch.33) that Mr. Crabbe & Mr. Goyle 
are Death Eaters, I'd figure that Jr's Crabbe & Goyle are also trying 
to follow in their fathers' footsteps.  But don't discount the 
possibility that they are truly evil - stupidity and ignorance can 
lead to all kinds of evil.  And stupidity and ignorance C&G have in 
spades.  Perhaps Draco will leave "the dark side" due to something 
C&G will do that rocks Draco's whole system of belief?


> For some reason I can't see them actually being in Slytherin. They 
> don't seem very ambitious, do they? I think that JKR placed them in 
> Slytherin because she figured we wouldn't mind if they were in 
> the "evil" house, even though they didn't fit the house's 
> qualifications.
>   Sincerely,
>   Procyon White


Hmmmm - I'm holding judgement on C&G's ambition right now.  JKR 
hasn't given us enough to work with character-wise with those two.  
Just because they have the intelligence of swamp dirt doesn't 
necessarily mean they aren't ambitious; they just wouldn't be able to 
successfuly carry out anything "meaningful" that would advance them.  
They would need a thinker to do that for them, and ride on that 
person's coattails.  Perhaps Mr. Crabbe & Mr. Goyle do the same with 
Lucius?  

- Denise (who still audibly hisses everytime Draco enters a scene)