[HPforGrownups] Draco's siblings? (was Re: Who knows Tom Riddle is Voldemort?)

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 55630

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Alexandra Y. Kwan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At 12:02 04/18/2003, herm - own - ninny wrote:
> >for the life of me remember who). They said something like: Draco has all
> >the bad qualities of the baby in the family, implying that he is likely to
> >have an older sibling. Whoever said this, can you elaborate? This seems like
> >a really interesting idea, so I'd love to hear your theory on it.
> 
> Well, it could also just be the 'only child' syndrome. 

I tend to see Draco as a spoiled only child who never had to learn to 
share with younger siblings and never had to live in the shadow of an 
older sibling.  The fact that the Malfoys only brought one child (him) to 
the Quidditch World Cup further supports the "only child" hypothesis, but 
we won't know for sure unless JKR tells us in future books or interviews.

BTW, I'm not claiming that all only children are spoiled by any stretch.  
I know plenty of well-adjusted onlies.  Draco just isn't one of them. ;)


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"