OoP: Has Anyone Seen Redeemable Draco???

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 66934

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" <
meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Meg" <megrose_13 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> >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...)>
> 

Jenny:

> Really?  I could have sworn Draco said, very seriously, that he was 
> going to kill Harry.  He and his cronies also tried to get Harry on 
> the train home, but were, as usual, unsuccessful.
 

Draco reached for his wand and Harry outdrew him, which led to the instant 
classic exchange:

"What are you doing, Potter?"
"Trying to decide which curse to use on Malfoy, sir"

Draco is a punching bag. Comic relief. Wile E. Coyote. Roscoe P. Coltrane. 
Whichever goofball-of-the-moment Michael Jordan in his prime used to dunk 
on. 

Harry has outsmarted him, outplayed him, outhexed him and out-
accomplished him.

Draco has, in order:

SS: managed to get Harry in trouble  by snitching on him, then ran like a deer 
at the first sign of trouble in the Forest.

CoS: gotten thrashed at Quidditch, talked big with the "You'll be next, 
mudbloods!"  stuff and then wasn't a factor for the rest of the book.

PoA:  faked an injury, gotten the taste slapped out of his mouth by Hermione 
and beaten AGAIN at Quidditch.

GoF: shown up completely when Hermione the Hottie came to the ball and he 
was with dog-faced Pansy. Causes trouble by gossiping, but a non-factor for 
most of the book, and then pimp-slapped and stepped on at the end.

OoP: beaten at Quidditch AGAIN. Upstaged by Ron, has a bit of glory for a 
second when he's Dolores' lapdog, then has his father's name smeared and 
again a quivering lump at the end.

Draco is a wuss. It's time to un-wussify him or write him out.

Darrin
-- I love the 80s moment: "Acid-washed jeans? Why didn't someone stop us?"