[HPforGrownups] Malfoys and Dursleys

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 47341



> michelle.pagan at colorado.edu said:
> 
> >I'm not sure Lucius cares too much about his son. 

And Janet replied: 
> However, I disagree that Lucius doesn't *care* about his son. 

While I think your comparison between Lucius and Vernon is pretty much
spot on, I'm not really sure what you look to in canon as evidence that
Lucius cares about Draco. He certainly is critical of him in Borgin &
Burkes, he leaves him on his own when drunken Death Eaters are
rampaging, and Draco doesn't speak a word in public, other than in
Borgin & Burkes, when Lucius is around.

His parents leave him at school over Christmas hols when Lucius *knows*
that a Basilisk is roaming around the school and it's implied in CoS
that on all of Lucius' visits to Hogwarts on various bits of "business"
that year, he never spends much time, if any at all, with Draco.

Where in canon is the caring?

Heidi