OoP: Has Anyone Seen Redeemable Draco???

[Meg]

No: HPFGUIDX 66915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> <<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, fairecher at a... wrote: The 
> odds seem against Draco ever turning out well...I wouldn't say I 
> really feel too sorry for him, but I really do like to try to 
analyze 
> people(and characters in books!)...Something I find interesting was 
> that when Draco first met Harry he seemed to have been trying to be 
a 
> friend to Harry in his very crude way.  But Harry rejected Draco 
> (rightly) when Draco insulted Ron and his family! Draco doesn't 
have 
> anyone who really likes him, and he seems to have been raised to 
> believe that being liked isn't important...Lucius is a horrible 
> parent, and I assume that Narcissa is just as bad.  A moment I keep 
> coming back to was from the CoS movie, although I realize that 
things 
> in the movies aren't necessarily "canonical". When Draco falls off 
> his broom during the quidditch game, Lucius looks humiliated and 
not 
> at all concerned that his son might have been hurt.  That look on 
> Lucius' face seems to sum up this father/son relationship 
completely 
> to me!>>>


I don't know - I think I may disagree with your statement.  By the 
end of OOTP Draco says nothing to Harry after his father was landed 
in Azkaban.  I didn't interpret this as speechless anger on my first 
read, but rather, just a lack of anything to say.  Perhaps this is 
the first sign of Draco's 180 back towards being good?  Normally I 
think Malfoy would try and fight with Harry as he has done so many 
times in the past (Usually resulting in his being turned into a furry 
white rodent or being bloodied...)