Draco re Cedric..wasLily/Snape

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 25318

P.S. (That means Pre-Script), Amanda, once you stated your 
(husband's) that Voldemort will attempt to gain the goblins as allies 
and if he succeeds, he will have control of everyone's life savings 
(except what is in their mattress or sugar bowl), valuables stored in 
safe deposit, and ability to convert between Muggle and magic money 
because of Gringotts being the only bank, then it was obvious, and 
there is nothing more to be said. One gets more replies by making an 
error than by revealing a profound insight.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Koinonia2 at h... wrote:

> I wonder if Draco was really happy to see Cedric die. Draco might
> be just as sad and afraid as every other kid at Hogwarts.  He just
> can't show it.

Draco SHOULDN'T have been happy to see Cedric die, should not have 
gloated over it. I don't mean 'should' as in morality, but Cedric 
was a pureblood, a good athlete and adequate magic user, as well as 
being good-looking, and surely was exactly the type of person who 
would be a useful recruit to the Dark Side. 

If Draco believed that Cedric had been killed in combat fighting on 
belief of Draco's enemy side against the Lord of Draco's side (and 
Dumbledore hardly told the students that Cedric was merely the victim 
of Dispose of the Spare) then Draco might not want to drink a toast 
in his honor (quite a few USAmericans would not be willing to drink a 
toast in honor of a person who had, however sincerely, however 
heroically, died fighting for Naziism or Communism).

But SURELY Draco should have felt regret that Cedric's talents and 
good pureblood genes had been lost to the Dark Side just because 
he'd been brainwashed by that Mugglelover of a father of his and no 
Dark Sider had shown him the //light// right side to be on in time.