[HPforGrownups] Re: Freindship outside trio -Draco Malfoy - Snape/Black

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 56162

From: darrin_burnett

>From Me:

> I find myself anticipating more and more what will happen to Draco.  I
feel
> he is at a very pivotal moment.  To this point, he has not done anything
> truly evil.  Yes, he has been nasty, but to the best of our knowledge he
has
> not been actively involved in DE activities, if only because Lucius hasn't
> allowed him to.

From: darrin_burnett

Draco, I'd argue, has evil in his head.  It's not just "picking on"
Muggle-borns.
It's openly advocating their slaughter. Big difference.

His views are Lucius' views at this point. I'd agree with that. But,  I'd
also argue
that by age 14, you should be forming that path. I don't know what is magic,
pardon the pun, about age 15 being the turning point. Draco seems already
on the path to me.

>From Me:

I guess what I meant is he has not done anything irrevocably evil yet, like
his father has.  I didn't mean to imply that 15 was some "magical" turning
point age.  But this book may be so for Draco.  After all, aside from his
time at Hogwarts, of which he spends most of that time with like-minded
Slytherins, he has been very heavily under his father's influence.
Therefore, it might take him longer to truly make the choice for himself.  I
agree that he already has at least a toe over the line to Dark Side, but I'm
just saying he hasn't completely stepped over that line.  Maybe the summer
before their 5th year at Hogwarts, his father will recruit him to do some
nastier things, and his actively committing acts of evil will push him over.

>From darrin_burnett:

Now, something could DRIVE him from that path, much the same way
something might have knocked Snape from that path.

But I think he has had time to stray from it on his own.

>From Me:

Yeah, he has had time to choose differently.  Yeah, he has begun to walk
down it.  I'm just saying I don't think it's a firm thing yet, and he could
choose differently.  Of course, he COULD always do a Snape and realize after
he's gone quite a ways down it he was wrong and do what he can to get onto a
different path, but I still feel he's at a very critical time.  This could
be his last chance to choose a different path without facing any of the
consequences or hardships that I feel Snape has faced and is still facing
because he was so entrenched before "seeing the light."

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova