OoP: Re: Redeemable Draco??? No, How about Punching Bag!Draco

[darrin_burnett]

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> I'm in the midst of my second read of the book.  A much slower and 
> careful read, so I'm picking up a lot more details than the first 
> time when I was roaring though it like a tsunami.  Anyway, while I 
> know I've only covered some of Draco's scenes, he strikes me as one 
> of the characters that has had little, if any, character 
> development.  If anything, he strikes me as becoming even more of a 
> stock character.  But, perhaps the Draco fans should be the ones to 
> comment.  Redeemable? Dead sexy? <Yawn> We've seen this act 
before?  
> Junior DE?
> 
> What's the verdict?

Whichever way Draco is going to go, I want him to stop being such a 
punching bag. I prefer EvilerThanLuciusEverDreamedOfBeing!Draco, but 
I'll even accept Redeemed!Draco at this point, so long as he stops 
being such a wuss.

He loses - again - at Quidditch to Harry. He makes up a taunt that 
gets to Ron at first, but Ron overcomes that. He manages to capture 
Harry coming out of a DA meeting, but big deal, we've seen Draco do 
that before. (way back in SS/PS.)

Then, at the end, he once again brings three guys to attack Harry and 
finds himself hexed into humilation.

Note: I don't consider what happens to Draco at the end of OoP an 
unfair fight. If you take three guys to attack one guy, don't whine 
when that one guy whistles and 10 more show up. Ditto for GoF, when, 
the numbers are three on three, but Draco's got Crabbe and Goyle in 
what is shaping up to be a fistfight against Hermione and Ron.

In other words, don't bring a knife to a gunfight! And don't whine 
about getting bullied if in fact you are a bully.

(Actually, this is the strongest evidence yet for a Good!Slyth. If 
all Slyth were bad, one would think Draco's posse would be bigger. 
Perhaps the Ambitious Slyths are tired of backing a losing horse.)

But anyway, Draco is bordering on pointless for me. Harry flat-out 
tells Snape he's going to curse Draco and Snape, perhaps impressed by 
Harry's audacity in spite of himself, takes away 10 points??? Sheesh, 
even his head of house doesn't respect Draco.

Redeemable. Good. Bad. Worse. Worst yet. Whatever.

Just pick one and give the kid some meat on his scrawny bones.

Darrin
-- I love the 80s Moment: "I was happy for Toni Basil, but if I 
heard 'Mickey' one more time, I was going to be in the clocktower 
with pantyhose on my head."