[HPforGrownups] Harry and friendship outside the trio

[herm - own - ninny]

No: HPFGUIDX 55855

Susan Wrote:
>Despite the fact that Draco can be a little brat, he's never done >anything 
>TRULY evil. He's called Hermione a "mudblood" and bragged >about the 
>Chamber of Secrets, but he's never really HURT someone.

Me:
I am not of the camp that believes Evil!Draco will make an appearance in 
canon. To me, Draco Malfoy seems to be a lot of talk. He says shocking and 
hurtful things with ease, hardly giving a second thought to the implications 
his words have. In CoS announces that he'd be happy to see Hermione die. But 
his words hold no "evil" conviction, they aren't filled with passion and 
hatred as, say, Tom Riddle's are when he talks about his filthy Muggle 
father. Should Hermione have actually died, I doubt he would have been as 
exuberant as he claims.

When Draco gets nasty and starts spewing hateful things, I feel like he's 
repeating Voldemort propaganda instilled in him by Lucius. He firmly 
believes in what he says without -really- understanding what it means. It's 
easy to wish hateful things onto a bunch of "filthy" Muggles he's never met.

I guess I'm saying that despite what Draco may say, and despite what he may 
think he believes in, when push comes to shove he doesn't want to see the 
people he knows die. When Cedric is murdered Draco is able to be cocky about 
the whole affair because he didn't really know Cedric, did he? I mean, Harry 
hardly knew him at all until they both became champions. I see no evidence 
that Draco and Cedric had any sort of interaction, other than Quidditch. 
It's unlikely they ever spoke to each other, so to him Cedric is just 
another name. Perhaps that's why it's so easy for Draco to shrug off his 
death.

However at the start of GoF, at the QWC, Draco comes across the trio in the 
forrest and he warns Hermione to get away. Sure, he doesn't do it in the 
nicest way possible, but his words are nevertheless a warning veiled in an 
insult. Why would he do this? Hermione is a Mudblood and surely she deserves 
to be persecuted by the DEs. Maybe it's because he knows Hermione, he's 
formed a relationship with her, and she is his peer. Therefore he does not 
actually want to see her get hurt, at least not subconciously.

I think that if Draco is confronted by a situation where someone he has 
formed a relationship with is actually murdered, his words and his beliefs 
will take on a the solid reality that they now lack.


Susan again:
>Harry and Draco will probably never really be "friend friends" and will
>continue to butt heads, but I think they will form a mutual respect >for 
>each
>other. In war, you need all the help you can get, personal vendettas aside.
>

Me:
When asked, JKR said in an interview (don't ask me which one) that Harry and 
Draco will not become friends later on, and that the idea is only a rumour. 
This leads me to believe that they will not be forming any sort of 
friendship, or mutual respect, or what have you. They'll stay enemies to the 
last.








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