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

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gideoner4 at yahoo.com wrote:

>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 read that as a mixture of two things. Firstly, he was so shocked that 
Hermione had acted in what was, then, a very out of character way, that he 
simply had no idea how to react. Secondly, he might have been thinking that 
hexing a girl wouldn't exactly be good for his image. Not that he'd be too 
much of a "gentleman" to attack a girl, of course - more that he might feel 
weak if he had to resort to hexing her, whereas Ron and Harry would be fair 
game.

I've only read the books through once (finished GoF last night) so I'm not 
well-up on what order everything happens in - but I think it was only 
*after* that incident that Draco hexed Hermione for the first time.

Hmm, it's an interesting fact that women seem to be able to get away with 
slapping men far often than men could get away with slapping women.


>Now as I said I didn't know what could
>have been going on inside Draco's head at that time. But I want to
>believe that Draco is hopefully still redeemable, and there's a
>spark of basic human goodness left in him.

Well, that probably applies to pretty much everyone. Snape used to be a 
Death Eater, but he left, voluntarily. Sirius once tried to feed Snape to a 
werewolf - but he turned out okay. There's no reason to believe that Draco 
*won't* get redeemed - it's just that I haven't seen anything to imply it's 
going to happen.

~Say
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