[HPforGrownups] Draco

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 18229

> Can anyone think of *anything*
> redeemable that Draco has done within the four books? 
> It seems to me that Draco is
> emphatically in the Dark Lord camp and quite happy to be there.
> Anyone have any views on this?

Draco Malfoy is a stupid, snotty little git who's too dumb to really
understand what the Dark Side is.  I think he sees it as some kind of
weekend country party where everyone swoops around in ultra-cool
black robes and his father is in charge of everything.  If he had
seen Lucius cringing in front of the returned Lord V. in GoF, he
would have been genuinely shocked.  

He enjoys inflicting pain without opening himself to the risk of
retaliation, hence the ever-present Goyle and Crabbe.  When Hermoine
lays a five-finger salute on him in class, he is helpless because you
can't smack a girl.  Maybe that's why he starts hanging out with
Pansy Parkinson.  She can hit Hermione for him.

I agree that he's getting almost boring in his hatefulness but I
don't think there's a lot of ambition or get-up-and-go in Draco.  He
expects to be handed things on a platter.  

And the problem with Draco repenting and turning good is that
SOMEBODY has to be on the Dark Side and if everyone reforms it just
won't be much fun when the retribution is handed out.

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