Draco

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47484

Chris States;

<< I see Draco as simply a bully and malicious troublecauser.  We have no 
hint that he has a deeper character than simple racism (mudbloods) and hiding 
behind his two companions.  He is so desperate for success and fame that he 
uses his father's money to buy his way on to the quiddich team and is 
spiteful enough to try and get Hagrid fired for his own mistake. >>

Exactly. Draco Malfoy is the everyday, petty niusance which keeps Harry and 
the reader firmly tied into the "school story" which the series is built 
around. If there were no Draco, we would be off fixating on the threat of 
Lord Voldemort outside the walls and the heinious plot du jure. 

Draco is the series's gadfly, but we can't dismiss him because he IS 
connected to what is going on outside and you can't tell whether he is acting 
on outside information related to this year's murder plot or whether he is 
merely adding to the general unpleasantness.

>>While it is commonly supposed that Draco will join the DEs, I don't think 
that will happen, although for a surprising reason.  I can't see LV wanting 
him too much, what does he bring to the DEs?<<

More to the point, given the set-up for "The World According to Lucius 
Malfoy" I can't see Lucius risking the extinction of the Malfoy name and 
honors by permitting anything of the sort until the sucession is secured. So, 
no Dark Mark for Draco until there is another Malfoy heir slumbering 
innocently in the nursery. And I DON'T get the impression that the Malfoys go 
in for early marriages.

-JOdel