The Evil Trio deserved hexes [was The Train Stomp vs. Dumbledore, etc.]

[Diana Lucas]

No: HPFGUIDX 51345



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer
<jferer at y...>" 
<jferer at y...> wrote:
> Tarnished? After what Draco and his cronies said? No
way. They showed admirable restraint.

dumbledore11214 replied:
>Absolutely, when I was reading this scene, I was
cheering the Trio and Fred and George almost without
reservations. That was not a teacher turning Draco
into ferret, Draco and his cronies provoked the 
Trio and got what they deserved, in my opinion. (Well,
maybe walking over them was a little too much).
Trio and twins only reacted to provocation. It does
not make them evil in my book.
 
Jim Ferrer wrote:
> Take it down to the scene on the train. I can't
imagine 99.99999% of the people on Earth being able to
endure that provocation - gloating over the murder of
a good person? It's monstrous, and unquestionably
> "fighting words," (a legally recognized concept of
words so provocative a reasonable person can't be
expected to endure them). 

dumbledore11214 replied:
>I know I would not be able to keep silence, if
provoked like that.

Now me:
I agree with Jim and dumbledore11214.  Not only was
Draco gloating about the horrible, wasteful death of
Cedric, Draco was actually *threatening* to kill
Harry, Hermione and basically every other other decent
person [read non-Voldemort supporter] in the WW. 

[From GoF, page 729 American hardback edition]:
"You've picked the losing side, Potter!  I warned you!
 I told you you ought to choose your company more
carefully, remember?  When we met on the train, first
day at Hogwarts?  I told you not to hang around with
riffraff like this!" He jerked his head at Ron and
Hermione.  "Too late now, Potter!  They'll be the
first to go, now the Dark Lord's back!  Mudbloods and
Muggle-lovers first!  Well -second -Diggory was the
f-"
[Draco, Crabbe and Goyle get hexed.]

Don't forget that shortly before this exchange on the
train, Harry had been painfully tortured by Voldemort
while Draco's, Crabbe's and Goyle's fathers watched!
Not only did those boys' fathers *not* help [never
expected them to, of course] Harry when Voldemort
tortured and then tried to kill him, they laughed at
Harry's pain and suffering!
I would say that Malfoy's father must told Draco at
least some of what happened in the cemetary that night
Voldemort regained his body.  And I'm sure Draco
greatly enjoyed the tales of Harry suffering under the
Cruciatus Curse.  Goyle's and Crabbe's fathers might
have told them as well.   

With the emnity between Malfoy and Harry this high, I
wonder what will happen at Harry's fifth year at
Hogwarts in OotP?  I mean, Harry's hatred for Draco
has grown way beyond the simple desire to show up a
bigoted, cruel braggart.  Since Harry escaped
Voldemort's clutches yet again and Voldie sorely wants
him dead, how safe will Harry be from Malfoy, Crabbe
and Goyle at Hogwarts?  I mean Malfoy and the other
Slytherins may have only wanted to injure Harry in PoA
to keep him from playing when the Quidditch Cup was on
the line, but now Draco and company might try to
please their fathers and Voldemort by killing Harry
for them.  They would have access to Harry at
Hogwarts, after all.
And I can't see the Evil Trio just forgiving and
forgetting about those hexes on the train in GoF,
either.  Malfoy will definitely want a nasty revenge 
against Harry and his friends for those tentacles. ;)
I don't think those hexes and being trod upon was
punishment enough for the Evil Trio, actually.  If
someone threatened to kill me [actually "my father and
his evil Dark Lord boss will kill you and all your
friends asap"], I would be inclined to throw at them
the strongest, most dreadful curse I could think of -
the Evil Trio got off easy, IMHO. 

Diana
theplaidtoad 


 



 

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