Malfoy's Redemption

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 25338

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
 

> 
> Finally---a lot of people on here are eager to see Draco Malfoy 
d*mned.
> Keep in mind, people, he's only fifteen at the end of GoF, and 
although he's
> a poisonous little pill, he's got a lot of growing up still to 
do---at
> fifteen, as I've mentioned, even I hadn't attained the pinnacles
and 
peaks
> of human perfection that I since have scaled.  I did things back 
then that I
> 
> Eric (Technomad) Oppen

Eric, that was an insightful catalogue of some of the origins for the 
many unresolved conflicts that, sadly, persist to this day.  However,
when I speak of Draco's irredeemability, I do so not as a matter of 
personal preference, but as a result of my conclusions after reading 
what JKR has had Draco say and do.  Whatever charitable impulses I 
might have for a person like Draco, as a character in a narrative,
JKR has created Draco without any good side.  There has been no 
foreshadowing of his redemption in the books to date. If Draco were
to turn good it would be a turnaround far greater than that 
of Quirrel/Voldemort, or of Moody/Crouch, Jr., or of 
Snape-the-Death Eater/Snape-as-spy-for-Dumbledore, and one for which 
JKR has not laid any foundation.  All this of course is my most
humble opinion-- but one which I have backed with a wager.

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