Will Draco get out in Time?(Is Draco worse than James Was?)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 77711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marika_thestral" 
<marika_thestral at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "princesspeaette" 
> <princesspeaette at y...> wrote:
> 
> Margaret wrote:
> I don't see Draco coming to any great spiritual epiphany, he seems 
to 
> have pretty firmly chosen the dark side at the end of OoP. Maybe he 
> will, I'm not saying it's impossible. Maybe Pansy Parkinson will 
get 
> killed and he'll realize Voldemort is evil (and not in the warm 
fuzzy 
> way). He seems to have been raised to follow the Dark Arts, and he 
> doesn't seem to be rebelling like Sirius did. 
> 
> Marikas response:
> Yes, Draco is raised to follow the Dark Arts. He keeps walking in 
his 
> father's footsteps without trying to see things from different 
> perspectives before he makes his choices. He obviously thinks very 
> highly of his father and wants to please him. He knew from the very 
> beginning (when he meets Harry at Madam Malkin's) that he wanted to 
> be in Slytherin, like the rest of his family. He does what's 
expected 
> from him. He trust his father to know what's best for him, because 
> that's what matters to Draco - what's best for himself. Therefore I 
> believe that if Voldemort turns out to be bad for Lucius, Draco 
might 
> realize that Voldemort is bad for himself as well. So if something 
> happens to Lucius (besides having to spend some time in Azkaban) 
and 
> Voldemort is the one responsible, I can see Draco's image of the 
> world (including what's right and wrong) collapsing.

This reminds me of something that Phineas Nigellus says to Harry, and 
for the life of me, I can't find the passage right now.  It was 
something like "Slytherins will always act to save their own necks."

I can see Draco coming to the realization that the path his father 
has always followed, and that he has emulated as he's grown up, is 
going to be a dead end. In that sense, I can see him shifting his 
allegiance to protect himself.  I don't see him having an epiphany 
and deciding that all the pure blood nonsense advocated by Voldemort 
and Lucius is wrong.  I think Draco's more likely to keep those 
beliefs hidden, and act just enough against them to be able to avoid 
paying a price for them.  

We tend to draw parallels between Harry's generation and the 
generation of his parents.  Perhaps Draco is this generations' 
Regulus.  Draco still has the opportunity to turn away from the 
teachings and beliefs he's grown up with.  Whether he ever does so, 
or whether he does it unwillingly or whether he does a complete about-
face in his attitudes remains to be seen.

Marianne