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

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41637

Darrin wrote, taking the words out of my mouth:

>Yes, the SS soldiers who threw the switches on the gas chambers in  
Auschwitz and Buchenwald were certainly loyal.
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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.)
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The scumbags who flew planes into the World Trade Center were just 
brimming with loyalty.>

Exactly!  I also wanted to add a comment about using "Voldemort did 
great things" as an example of what Draco may turn out to be.  When 
Ollivander made that comment, just like Harry, I became uncomfortable.  
I wondered what JKR meant by that.  I would never, ever think to use 
the word 'great' in relation to Voldemort.  He's not great.  He may be 
smart, he may be resourceful, he may be a powerful leader, but he 
ain't great.  He's evil.  I would say the same for Hitler.  There 
wasn't a great bone in that man's body, no matter what brilliant, 
horrifying and devastatingly successful plan he had at the time.  
 
Then TaliaDawn wrote:

>Draco will be a DE - and a damn good one at that - because he was 
raised to follow his father.>

I have to echo many people's thinking here (and I have always thought 
this too) and wonder if Draco will ever muster the courage to do the 
things that the DEs are expected to do.  He is also not so good at 
following his father.  Draco does not get the grades his father 
expects.  He has a big mouth and seems to get himself in trouble too 
often for, I'm sure, his father's tastes.  Didn't his father ask Draco 
to keep his beliefs in Voldemort to himself?   Doesn't Draco 
constantly open his big mouth, betraying both himself and his father - 
calling Hermione a mudblood and such?  I could picture Draco rolling 
up his sleeve in the halls between classes, all the Slytherins 
clustered around him, showing off his "secret" DE tattoo.

I still think JKR is setting us up for a Draco who has to live a Life 
Without Father, and it may be a Draco even Harry will take seriously.

 
> (p.s. are you guys serious about that book burning thing or is it an 
inside joke that i missed?)>

I also have to say that, even though there are scenarios I hope won't 
happen, I couldn't even joke about a book burning.

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