[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Draco evil?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15237

nera at rconnect.com wrote:

> For instance, Draco had been watching the Muggle tossing from a
> clearing in the woods. If he were truly his evil father's "chip off
> the old block," he would have been out in the midst of the action,
> laughing his head off and making sport of them.

But if he wasn't a chip off the old block, can someone explain to me the
cruelty and bad intent he shows in CoS, during the scene where he's
talking to the Polyjuiced Harry & Ron (I forget which was Crabbe and
which Goyle)? Here's Draco himself, not onstage, in his own inner
sanctum talking to his two constant companions, and he is just as nasty
as he is in public. This scene is one of the main reasons I'm not
doubting that little Draco will be just as evil, come of age, as Lucius.
Just because someone's raised badly doesn't mean the bad raising won't
take.

--Amanda


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