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

[frankielee242]

No: HPFGUIDX 41645

jenny_ravenclaw wrote:

>> 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.
> > > >  
> 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.
                          >>snip<<
> 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.

Or, a Draco who has to live a Life Without Mother... I would LOVE to
see Draco really blossom (is that the right metaphor?) into an evil
guy-- but so far he's come off as a mama's boy who would completely
freak out if anything ever happened to her. Which IMO disqualifies him
from being truly evil. Unless it's in a disturbing Oedipal sort of
way... Not ruling that out, though.

I got the impression in (CoS) that Draco has never been good enough
for his father.  Lucius puts Draco down in public and then won't tell
him anything about Riddle's diary. What if right along with Crabbe and
Goyle, Snape is helping Draco too? That would make Hermione's top
student status all the more galling to Lucius-- Even with extra help,
Draco is still beaten by a mudblood. After all, Narissa was the one
who refused to let her baby go all the way out to Durmstrang where
muggle-born children are not admitted.

I do agree 100% with Jenny about Draco's big mouth-- Lucius may
decide, after hauling an unconscious, hex-marked Draco off of the
train (end of GoF), that Draco is a liability and would make a good
sacrifice. Or, he may decide to use Draco's swaggering as bait. Draco
being sold out by his father could provide a catalyst for him becoming
more *evil* and bent on revenge.

I bet JKR has a few more *evil* people in the wings. We don't know all
that much about the DEs, only that a number of them didn't show up. 
Most weren't named by name either. It was only the large gap of
missing people and the publically accused DEs that V-mort commented on.

An existing character that might come back to haunt us is darling Rita
Skeeter. She's a cartoon figure at the moment, but she has some *evil*
growth potential. She was in the room when Snape showed Fudge the dark
mark, Sirius transformed and Dumbledore named some names. She might be
in a glass jar at the end of GoF, but Hermione is going to let her out
when they get back to London. What's to stop Rita from writing under a
pen-name or selling information to the DEs?

BTW, I think there's a connection between the Malfoys and Snape that JKR
hasn't shown us yet. Snape sort of tried to warn Harry about accusing
Mr. Malfoy in front of Fudge (GoF).

Side note from an old discussion-- I think Snape is on decent terms
with Lucius and the rest of the Death Eaters as he was never put on
trial to point fingers and name names like Karkarof. I also get the
feeling that he was out rampaging around with the other DEs at the
Quiddich World Cup (GoF). Disturbing observation-- the DE's at the QWC
were at the center of a crowd laughing and pointing up at the muggles.
The MOM officials had to fight through this crowd to get at the DEs.
Perhaps WW sentiments are closer to the DE ideology than we are aware.

On the book-burning SHIP front, Draco and Hermione would no sooner get
together than Harry and Pansy Parkinson. There seems to be something
betwixt and between Pansy and Draco, actually. She ran simpering
around after him in PoA's hippogriff incident. Then, she wore the same
sort of frilly dress to the Yule Ball (GoF) that Aunt Petunia would
wear and Draco showed up in black robes with a high collar that could
be compared to Uncle Vernon's tailcoat.


Frankie, who will fire up the grill-- brats, dogs, burgers, tofu for
the vegans... and lighter fluid for Darrin and Cindy...