[HPforGrownups] Draco's Unlikely Redemption

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 33442

lucky_kari wrote:
 
> PS Amittedly, I perhaps have in mind Maglor in the Silmarillion, who
> stands by when they throw his father, Eol, over a cliff. Admittedly,
> Eol deserved it, but so would Lucius deserve Azkaban.

That's Maeglin, and that's a very interesting parallel!  Because
the crime for which Eol certainly deserved death (throwing him
over the cliff was a formal execution) was the attempted murder
of Maeglin himself, which turned into the actual murder of Eol's
wife/Maeglin's mother Aredhel, when she jumped in front of the
spear.

Yeah, I can almost see Lucius doing that if sufficiently
motivated.  Not quite as sure about Narcissa...


--Margaret Dean, doubtful that JKR has read the Silmarillion
  <margdean at erols.com>