[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Draco Malfoy Isn't Evil ... IS

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14841

Here is why I think Draco is officially evil. From GoF, end of book, on the
Hogwarts express:

"'Too late now,  Potter! They'll be the first to go, now the Dark Lord's
back! Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first! Well - second - Diggory was the
f-'"

This is not just a little boy who was taught hatred at his father's knee.
This is not "somewhat of a jerk". This is a nasty brat who is openly
enjoying the prospect of seeing his schoolmates cut down by Voldemort. He
can envision a "Mudblood" like Hermione getting killed, and he relishes it.
And that awful remark about Cedric's death - I don't care how many pairs of
leather pants he has, he is an evil skanky brat.

Ok, this is the part where I KNOW I sound like a Draco-apologist, and
I don't want to because in canon, there REALLY may not be anything
worth apologizing for. I know this. I recognize this. I don't care.
Look at that sentence without punctuation, and don't hear it in
Draco's drawl:

"Too late now,  Potter. They'll be the first to go, now the Dark
Lord's back - Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first,  Well - second -
Diggory was the f..."

The speaker thinks that what he's saying is completely true - he
knows that Voldemort has returned and it doesn't take a full fledged
Death Eater to conclude that he'll go after muggle-born and muggle-
supportive wizards - in fact, it's implied that everyone around
Harry's bedside believes the same thing. And Cedric Diggory *was* the
first person to be killed by Voldemort in this second reign of
terror.

Why is this a malicious statement? Because of how he sounded when he
said it? Because he was warning them - and trying to smile to look
reassuring, not realizing that he was completely failing at it? We
really do *not* know what he was thinking when he said this - and
yes, it could be horrible, he could have the worst intentions in the
world. It's entirely possible.

But Crookshanks didn't jump at him...so maybe he didn't....

Draco is not just evil in that reference, but throughout the entire series.
The only time he is not evil to Harry was in the robe fitting room, but even
then, he was not nice in his references to other students. It didn't take
Harry or most readers much time at all to figure out what Draco Malfoy was
all about. Even his name suggests this: mal- "bad, badly, abnormal,
inadequate"

Draco and his allies are mean to other students; disrespectful to Hagrid
when he was teaching; they show no respect even to Dumbledore during a
couple of his speeches in the Great Hall. The references are too numerous to
name, but it would make for an interesting list.

Doreen, whose EX-husband also looked good in leather pants, but was also a
skanky, evil git!

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