Draco Malfoy - Snape/Black

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No: HPFGUIDX 56186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> Draco is not a nice kid.  He's spoiled, rude, likes to play very 
nasty 
> tricks on others, seems to be unmotivated in school harbors jealous 
> feelings towards Harry and is utterly dependent on his parents.  
Isn't 
> it possible that he will remain these things and still choose, in 
the 
> end, not to ally himself with the DEs?  That's the real Snape 
> parallel, IMO, and that's what makes Snape so fascinating.  I'd 
like 
> to see more depth in Draco's character, but if he simply chooses to 
be 
> either good or evil, he'll be one-dimensional, and JKR can do 
better 
> than that.

Draco seems to be very immature/incompetent for his age, at least as 
far as the wizard world is concerned. He runs away in the forbidden 
forest, for example, and gets his father to buy the team Nimbus 2001s 
so they'd make him seeker.

It surprises me that Lucius doesn't do more to toughen him up. This 
is a world where Neville's great uncle Algie pushes him off a pier 
and hangs him out a window to force a little magic out of him. 
Quidditch, dangerous with the potential for serious injury. There has 
also been a lot of speculation on this list that Dumbledore knew what 
was happening in PS/SS and let Harry confront and defeat 
Quirrell/Voldemort. Children aren't coddled, they're regularly 
expected to engage in dangerous activities.  

That makes LM's attitude in COS even more puzzling. It's a perfect 
opportunity for Draco to get his feet wet, start following in daddy's 
evil footsteps. Lucius had to manufacture an opportunity to slip the 
book to Ginny; it might have been much easier for a schoolmate to do 
so.  LM doesn't even have enough faith in his son's discretion to 
tell him anything about what's going on. Draco tells Crabbe & Goyle 
(Harry & Ron) that his father won't tell him anything about the last 
time the Chamber was opened and to keep his head down and let the 
Heir get on with it. It sounds to me from what Draco says that he 
doesn't even know anything about his father's role in the present 
Chamber's opening.

I don't think he'll let his son join the DEs, probably figures he 
wouldn't last a week, that if Voldemort didn't kill him, he'd 
probably be captured and talk. Maybe he's trying to keep Draco alive 
long enough to get a grandson and keep the family line going.

If Draco ever realizes any of this it might motivate him to grow up, 
either to reject the DEs and join with Dumbledore (if the side will 
have him is another question), or to out-evil his father.

Donna

> --jenny from ravenclaw
> 
> Would Draco's Choice be a good name for a band? 
> *******************************************

Good name for a band, great name for a fanfic.
D.