[HPforGrownups] re: Draco/Evil - trademarked titles - Birtha Jorkins - ot...

[tillrules at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25275

In a message dated 8/30/2001 9:53:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
catlady at wicca.net writes:

<< Tillrules wrote:
 
 > In the other hand, in the midst of an ongoing
 > series of accidents, Draco hopes that Hermione 
 > will be next, purely due to her "mudblood" status.
 
 NOT *purely* due to her "mudblood" status -- Draco would hate Hermione
 even if she were a pureblood, because he considers it to be her fault
 that her e.g. 112% in Charms causes his father to berate him for not
 having done as well.
 
But he hated her before that, from the first solely of that status., well 
before the charms exam, etc.  That his father berates him is an afterthought. 
 It's pretty clear that his hatred for Hermione is due to her status. 

 Tillrules wrote:
 
 > We do not know that he was the type of 
 > child Draco is, kind of the kid who drowns
 > puppies & cats to see them squirm.
 
 Draco doesn't drown kitten and puppies to see them squirm, he does it to
 try to prove to his father that he isn't soft. >>

That doesn't seem to be shown anywhere.  He's always shown as having 
attitudes that jibe with his fathers.  There is no evidence that I can recall 
of him doing what he does to impress his father, all evidence points to him 
doing so to emulate his father.  I don't thnk its been shown at all that he's 
forced to be evil, he just is.