Malfoy's Choice of Date

[nyarth_meow]

No: HPFGUIDX 36412

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mr_Boregard" <mrboregard at e...> wrote:
> In GoF, Malfoy escorts Pansy Parkinson to the Yule Ball. You would 
> think that a person of such lofty self worth would escort someone 
> other than the hard faced Pansy. Are there any girls in the 
Slytherin 
> house worthy of Malfoy's ideals or did he limit himself to the 
stock 
> of Slytherin girls suitable to his personality? 
> 
> Mr. Boregard

Perhaps Draco genuinely likes her? Maybe she has hidden depths. *g*  
We, after all, only get to see the side of the wee Malfoy that Harry 
and the Gryffindors see, and Harry is rather naturally inclined to 
focus on the bad in Slytherins.

OR, the other extreme, Malfoy and his gang of Slytherins are not 
representative - or even popular- with the whole of Slyth.  After 
all, there's half-bloods in Slytherin (according to JKR's student 
list)  who might find his views offensive, so maybe his little group 
is more marginalized than we get to see.  
And while all wizards who've gone bad are Slytherins  (According to 
Hagrid in PS, although he'd forgotten Sirius Black, then considered a 
Dark wizard), it doesn't follow that all Slytherins are naturally 
Voldemort supporters.
Parkinson might have been the only girl willing *and* suitable (ie 
purebred)

-Nyarth, who identifies with the Slytherins more than any other 
house, *isn't* a racist fanatic, and likes her shades of grey as 
opposed to black and white / good and evil  ^_^