OoP: Has Anyone Seen Redeemable Draco???

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 66991

<<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marianne" wrote: What about 
all those baskets and treats his owl brought him from home?  And his  
father paying for the whole Slytherin team's brooms? I dunno, his  
father may not be extreamly affectionate, but malfoy seems pretty  
spoiled, and I get the impression his mother babies him...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Yeah, he's spoiled rotten, but there's no evidence that either of his 
parents particularly likes him. I still say Harry needs a 
contemporary couterpoint for dramatic symmetry. Never forget that JKR 
has plotted all this out on grids. The Sorting Hat says we all have 
to pull together -- who else in Slytherin House do we know better?
(Snape is a grownup -- he doesn't count.)

To use darrin burnett's analogy, Draco has indeed turned into Wil E. 
Coyote, which leaves Harry with nothing to say but "beep-beep". I say 
our Harry is a classic hero on the scale of Bugs Bunny; he needs 
Draco to rise to the level of Daffy Duck for the Final Confrontation 
to have any poignancy at all.

--JDR, visualizing the final scene like this: having lost the 
epic "rabbit season, duck season" battle, a broken and bleeding Draco 
screeches "go on, shoot me again! I love the smell of cordite and 
burnt feathers!"