Malfoy's Redemption

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cimorene21 at h... wrote:
> --- 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 

Hi everyone.

New poster here.

I'm not sure about Draco.  After all, in the first book, when he 
discovered that Hagrid had a dragon, he didn't turn Hagrid and Harry 
in as he might have.  Remember, it was at least 2 weeks that he new, 
and he didn't do anything with the information.

Even later, when he discovered that the gang was going to have the 
dragon picked up from the astronomy tower, the most that Draco did 
was to sneak out of bed and attempt to attend.

It wasn't until he got caught that he started spouting about the 
dragon and Harry.

I have to wonder what he was planning on doing that night before he 
got caught.

Is Draco truely bad, or is he just a spoiled kid that discovered 
somehow that Harry thinks the worst of him, so now he has to live up 
to the image.