[HPforGrownups] Re: Malfoy redemption

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 14951

>> Do you really think that Snape wasn't pretty much exactly like
>> Draco when he was at school? (Only possibly less popular and Draco
>> probably has cleaner hair.) I wouldn't be surprised if he went 
>> around spouting off about Muggles and Mudbloods. He joined the 
>> Death Eaters, after all. And his redemptive possibilites are quite

>> clear in canon.
> 
> This is the strongest argument I've seen for a possible Draco
> redemption.  

Actually, I don't think Snape was at all like Draco.  I think Snape
THINKS Draco was just like him.  Snape came from a poor family (re
allusion to yellowed, uneven teeth - usually a dead giveaway in
British literature to a less-than-middle-class background) and had no
friends in school.  Draco doesn't have friends since Crabbe and Goyle
are more like hulking pets than pals.  It's also quite likely that
Snape has a very romantic view of the aristocracy which Draco comes
from.

I don't believe that muggles and mudbloods bother Snape that much. 
We'd have heard about it by now.  Would Dumbledore have hired him in
that case?  He's mean and nasty but it's an equal-opportunity mean
and nasty; in fact, he's meanest of all to poor Neville who's
pure-blood.

I don't think Draco will be redeemed.  He'll just get a bad shock
when he realizes that he and/or his father are being used by V.  Not
the same thing as a change of heart.

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