Draco won't be a DE/You so sure about that?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41623

Talia Dawn:
> 
> When I see Draco, I see fierce loyalty.  I don't think he's capable 
of 
> disobeying his father.  IMHO, loyalty is a great quality - no 
matter what 
> you're loyal to.  Also, pride.  I'm a little on the crazy side, but 
I think 
> pride and loyalty are good qualities to have.
> 
> --Talia Dawn, who has been called ever-so-evil on many occasions 
and *loves* 
> Snape, Draco, and the Dark Lord
> 
> 


Yes, the SS soldiers who threw the switches on the gas chambers in 
Auschwitz and Buchenwald were certainly loyal.

Many Southern slaveowners had no problem tearing up over their 
loyalty to the South, their mothers, and their way of life and then 
whipping the skin off some slave who tried to escape (I guess the 
slave showed disloyalty.)

The scumbags who flew planes into the World Trade Center were just 
brimming with loyalty. 

Loyalty IS a good trait, but so is being able to think for yourself 
and determine a value system for yourself. If you don't have the 
second, the loyalty ends up being attached to a Hitler, a bin Laden, 
a Jefferson Davis.

Or a Voldemort. 

Draco is incapable of disobeying his father?? OK, so what happens 
when Lucius teaches Draco the AK curse and says: "Go kill the 
mudblood."

If Draco does it, is he somehow showing a good quality? My answer is 
that I hope he ends up in Azkaban, or better yet, in the same 
hospital that the Longbottoms. 

Real courage and redemption is what Snape did. He saw the DE side, 
and decided against it. Following vile orders may make you a good 
soldier, but it sure as hell doesn't make you a good person.

Greatness defined as impact, a neutral term, on the world? Yes, 
Voldemort has it. Draco has the potential, if he ever gets a spine.

But how in the world does that translate to something redeemable? 

And besides, don't you have to seek redemption first? Just imagine 
for a second that you could have V-Mort appear in your living room 
and you got to ask him if he wanted to be "redeemed."

My guess is that he'd bust a blood vessel (assuming he has any) from 
laughing at the concept. He doesn't WANT to be redeemed. And I doubt 
Lucius and those other KKK-clones in the DE circle care much about 
it. At most, they want to be absolved, which means they get away with 
it, but not redeemed.

Now, does Draco someday want redemption? Maybe, but certainly not 
based on anything we've read so far.

This whole word "redemption" has been misused quite a bit out here.

It means to change for the better or to atone for past sins. 
(Webster's) Where so far does anyone see anything Draco, LET ALONE 
VOLDEMORT, has said, done, thought, or insinuated that they have any 
interest or ability in doing this?. 

Darrin
-- Voldemort is going to lose in the end. DEAL WITH IT!