[HPforGrownups] Is Draco Redeemable? (was Re: The Death of Cedric)

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 11405



cassandraclaire at mail.com wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> I sure am, and I'm learning something about human nature or something
> > by his fic transformation into leather sex god. It drives me nuts
> > especially when he so often gets paired up with Ginny. Or Hermione!
> > Yeah, right! "You foul! You EVIL!" Right on, Hermione.
>
> *blinks innocently* What, so Ron and Hermione's constant bickering at
> each other is Sexual Tension, but Hermione whacking Malfoy about the
> face isn't? <vbg> There are endless Very Long Posts over on hpslash
> and the Draco egroup (yes, he has his own egroup) about Why We Like
> Malfoy, and How Draco Is Redeemable In Canon, many very eloquent.
> Perhaps I ought to ask permission to post one over here, since I'm
> far too lazy to write one myself.

Over the past few days, we've had a lot of posts from people saying "Snape may not be so bad - we only see him through Harry's eyes!" and the like.
Well, it's the same for Draco - other than the one scene in CoS where, admittedly, he acts a little sociopathic - we've only seen him through Harry's eyes.
For all we know (shameless plug here for my fanfic, Surfeit of Curses) he's off studying in the library with Hermione at odd hours of the day & night through 3rd & 4th years, and
only acts jerky to her when they've had a fight about something completely unrelated to him being bigoted - and the only way he knows how to strike at her is to act that way.
We also don't know whether those daily sweet packages from home contain Lucius' Daily Affirmations, including "Step on people less powerful than yourself, especially mudbloods and
weasleys" and Time Delayed Howlers which only go off when he's alone, which contain Lucius yelling at him, saying that he'd heard that Draco was not being actively mean enough to
students of muggle background, and he'd better improve at crushing their spirits.
And I have my own ideas about what Lucius told Draco about Cedric's death, which will fit word for word with what he said on the train, and won't excuse the complete cruelty of it,
but ...