[HPforGrownups] Draco vs Ron (Was Re: Musings on Draco0

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 35409

Jake Storm wrote:
> 
> >From: "gideoner4" <gideoner4 at yahoo.com>
> >Still, I am intrigued by the slapping incident PoA, where Hermione
> >slapped Draco and all Draco did was mutter "c'mon" to his two thugs
> >and left.  In all honesty, I haven't got a clue what's Draco's motive
> >behind that. Was he simply scared of Hermione? Or maybe he did not
> >want to cause trouble? But why? He could have hexed Hermione right
> >then and there. But he left.
> 
> I speculate that no real reading of Draco's character is needed. He was in
> shock. How many of his fellow Slytherins have ever stood up to him? Has he
> ever been struck by a classmate before? By a *girl* before? I think it
> likely that he was simply shocked that a Gryffindor, a *girl* and a
> *mudblood* would dare to offer him the gross insult of a physical assault.

Could he also be indoctrinated from childhood =not= to hit a
girl?  Granted that the Malfoys are pretty sorry specimens of
English aristocracy, they still might train their boys that way. 
It's really only male chauvinism in disguise, you know.  ;)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>