Draco Draco Draco

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 34030

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "btk6y" <btk6y at v...> wrote:

> Keep in mind, this is a boy who was thrilled when the Basilisk 
nearly killed 3 or 4 students in year 2 and shows no remorse for the 
death of Cedric.>

Aaaah - do you spend a lot of time with teenagers?  I do.  I teach 
high school in the South Bronx and let me tell you, my students laugh 
at things I find appalling.  One of my students said he thought it was 
funny when he first saw the footage of the people running for their 
lives from WTC as it was coming down.  This same student freely 
admitted he would cry if he ever came face to face with a ghost, which 
proved to me that his comments were not purely cold-blooded.

What is my point, you ask?  Well, it is an easy way out for kids (and 
plenty of adults, actually) to laugh at things they find 
uncomfortable, upsetting, threatening or confusing.  Draco feels so 
completely protected and above it all, he has no concept, IMO, of 
feeling for others.  Heidi is right - why should Draco feel remorse 
for Cedric's death?  In Draco's mind, it was probably "cool", as his 
father has well taught him that the power of Voldemort is magnificent 
indeed.  Draco's comments kind of remind me of the kid who says to her 
parent "I hate you!  I wish you were dead!" but doesn't really 
understand what the reality of that wish would be.  I'll bet Draco 
doesn't talk quite so smugly about ferrets or the Forbidden Forest; 
those are things he's has first hand negative experiences with.

--jenny from ravenclaw *************************