Malfoy's Redemption

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No: HPFGUIDX 25859

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> 
>   I think that while Draco Malfoy is, indeed, a snarky little pill, 
he's by no means irredeemable-- he's a jerk, he's a racist-- but he 
isn't all-out EVIL. On the other hand, Rowling really hasn't shown 
any signs of his being a decent sort underneath it all--the most 
compelling evidence of his nastiness, I think, is his behavior in CoS 
when he first sees the writing on the wall-- his response is 
downright SCARY.  I think that if JKR wants to treat the Draco 
character as anything more than a cardboard Foil-for-Harry, she would 
at least have him-- I'm not sure.   Whatever else is going to happen 
and whatever shape it takes, there is a direct and all-out 
confrontation between the Forces of Good and Evil coming up in these 
novels, and Draco malfoy's family is caught up in it.  I don't really 
think he's grasped the full weight of this yet-- while his father is 
obviously a horrible man who's done bad things, Draco was born near-
or-after the fall of V., and couldn't possibly have remembered what 
being a Death Eater really meant-- the Malfoys have been underground, 
in that respect, for the most part of his life-- I doubt they'd be 
doing anything spectacularly evil where their kid-- who might talk-- 
could see it.