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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41727

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at e...> 
wrote:
> At 3:15 PM +0000 7/24/02, darrin_burnett wrote:
> >
> >I really, really want Draco to get a spine.
> 
> Oh, but then he'd be taking a step towards Gryffindor.  Goodness, 
> isn't that the *last* thing we'd expect from someone the Sorting 
Hat 
> didn't even have to think about before slotting into Slytherin?
> 


Maybe a baby step toward Gryffindor, but it would be worth it. Draco 
right now is nothing. He has no guts and his wild schemes to get 
everyone in trouble hardly ever work. In PoA, Goyle, Crabbe and Draco 
put sheets on to imitate Dementors? Really, that is only one of the 
oldest and lamest tricks in the world.

And in GoF, he's just a punching bag. Hey, it's satifsying in a weird 
sort of way, but he certainly isn't one of the major villains of the 
books any longer. Maybe he never was meant to be, as Harry graduated 
fairly quickly -- in the space of the first book -- from worrying all 
that much about Draco to fighting Voldemort.


> >He's a lousy Quidditch
> >player.
> 
> I don't think this is what canon tells us, at least in PoA and 
later. 
> (He doesn't seem very good in CoS, but then he hasn't had much 
> experience.)  Slytherin is poised to win the Quidditch Cup (again) 
if 
> they can defeat Gryffindor at the end of PoA.  

Perhaps I exaggerated and put too much emphasis on Draco spending 
time taunting Harry rather than catching the Snitch. But you're 
right, he would have had to show some skill at some point.

Of course, he did buy his way onto the team with the second-best 
broom in the Wizard World, something the Raves and Huffs probably do 
not have -- at least not the entire team. 

Put Cedric and Cho, and their teammates, on Nimbus 2001s and see if 
Draco gets to the Snitch first.

But I will upgrade from lousy to average.




> >What if Snape, for some reason, didn't believe Lucius would go back
> >to Voldemort? Maybe he has confided in Lucius over the years 
because
> >he thought Lucius wanted out of Voldemort's circle as well.
> 
> If this is true, then Dumbledore has not explained what happened at 
> the end of CoS to Snape.  I find this unlikely.
> 


I don't. One thing we've learned about Dumbledore is that he operates 
on a need-to-know basis. It is not imperative that Snape know 
everything that happened at the end of CoS. In fact, if Snape is 
indeed a double agent inside the V-Mort camp, there are certain 
things Snape probably shouldn't be informed of, in case V-mort 
decided to play with his mind.


> 
> 
> It is precisely because Draco is proud, cowardly, and ambitious 
that 
> I think he either won't become a Death Eater or he'll leave them 
> shortly after joining.  He has no stomach for the serious work of 
> torture and murder, and he won't find it easy to grovel for 
> Voldemort.  (That is, if Lucius doesn't kill him for disloyalty 
> first.)

Let's see, he wants badly -- at least he thinks he does -- to be in 
Voldemort's crew. He is too cowardly for serious work and too proud 
for menial work.

In other words, he's completely useless to Voldemort. 

My worry is that he will soon become useless to the books.


Darrin
-- Or maybe he is already.