Draco

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 18390

Amber wrote:
Well, I think I'll put on my Devil's Advocate hat for a moment; who's 
to say that he hasn't made his choice already? And we just haven't 
seen it? Granted, he is young, too young to know the full impact of 
his decision. But he may; we have absolutely no idea of how much 
Lucius has revealed to young Mr. Malfoy. I think there's an 
assumption that Lucius wouldn't reveal everything because of Draco's 
age, but who knows?"

--Possibly. We don't know how much Lucius has told Draco, but we do 
know that the Malfoys are close enough to Voldemort to have a trove 
of his old school things. (ie. the diary) Then again Draco didn't 
know who had opened the chamber in CoS. Not just that Ginny had 
opened it, but that Riddle's diary was being used. I can understand 
Lucius' reasons for not making Draco privy to this information 
(making sure he didn't tell anyone), but it's all we have to go on 

Heidi wrote:
"2. Part-kneazle Crookshanks doesn't react badly to him ever on the 
train rides, even when Scabbers isn't around and he's not 
distracted by that little rat"

Amber responded:
"I don't know how good an indication this is. Has Crookshanks ever 
reacted badly to any *humans*?"

--Well Peter was a human even though in rat form. I know what you 
mean though. FB just says that a Keazle "...has the uncanny ability 
to detect any unsavoury or suspicious characters...". I'd say that 
includeds Humans. Draco's certainly rather "unsavoury", but...

Amber wrote:
"I personally don't know what to think about Draco. Part of me says 
he's a miserable little git who's been pushed around by his father 
and can't help being being who he is because of his upbringing. The 
other part of me says that Draco makes his own choices while in 
school and if he wanted to change he could. There certainly are 
positive role models in the castle. I'll be very interested to see 
what happens in the next three books, although I have a hard time 
seeing Draco swinging over to Dumbledore's crowd."

--Your two views are also the ones that most people take. I want to 
believe the former, I want to Draco to become good. I wouldn't be 
suprised if he did with the right characterisation, but I also 
wouldn't be suprised if he didn't given his character. Argh! When it 
comes down to it I don't know what to think of him either, but I have 
found myself liking him more and more lately. (cough *fanfic* cough)

Scott