[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione/Draco question

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 21674

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> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Melanie Brackney <ilovbrian_99 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was reading GOF yesterday, I was at the part when the Death 
> Eaters were wearing hoods and destroying Muggles for entertainment.  
> Malfoy makes a statement that is similar to "You better go hide, you 
> wouldn't want her to get into trouble" referring to Hermione.  Now as 
> bratty as this sounds...if he really wanted to see Hermione hurt (as 
> one would suspect, considering he's never really showed any respect 
> towards her before) why would he even suggest that she could possibly 
> in danger by staying out in the open.  It seems to me that in an odd, 
> maybe even snape like way, he was trying to help Hermione.  Does 
> anyone else see this?  Or am i out of my mind?
> 


not a bit! I have my own views in my fanfic-draco universe, but I think that
even Canon!Draco does not much like to see messy violence right up close.
He fled from Voldemort when he saw him drinking the Unicorn blood in the
forest 1st year, for example, and even the curses he's thrown aren't
particularly messy ones (tickling charm? big teeth?)
And if he called the death eaters over, or handed Hermione to them, he
would've been directly involved in the unplesantness, and he seems to have a
disinclination to get his hands dirty. Clearly, Lucius doesn't have the same
disinclination at this point (this scene is another peg in my Draco Is
Redeemable bulletin-board)