[HPforGrownups] Re: Couples in the Potterverse

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 47900


--- "Diane <cressida_tt at hotmail.com>" 

> As for Draco - get real chaps. He is JK Rowlings way
> of showing up 
> how good Harry is. I don't even think he is destined
> for redemption, 
> or really anything other than the bad guy bit
> part,unlike Professor 
> Snape. 

Well, that's an incredibly presumptive conclusion!

How do you know that JKR isn't trying to show
parallels between Snape and Draco, as she's clearly
showing parallels between Harry and James, in tandem?
I mean, even Dumbledore compares the animus between
Harry and Draco with the animus between James and
Snape - and we *know* from Book 3 that Snape tried to
warn James that there was a traitor close to him - of
course, he got it wrong as to who the traitor was, but
he did try. 

Why are you so quick to dismiss any parallels between
Snape and Draco when we *know* from the books that at
least Sirius (and likely his other friends (i.e.
James) too) thought that teenaged Severus was a
Dark-Arts practicing git? They didn't think any better
of him than Harry and his friends think of Draco, and
Snape turned out (at least from what we've seen in
canon so far) to be On The Side of Good.

Why is it impossible to think that she might be
showing something similar with Draco? 


heidi