OoP: Has Anyone Seen Redeemable Draco???

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 67038

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "whizbee2000" <swmil at m...> 
wrote:
 
> I wonder if Draco will in fact have to save "Hermione" and thus 
> redeem himself. The houses will have to unite as the sorting had 
> said, and I think it will be just this type of situation that Draco 
> will be put in that might change the tides. Somehow, I think he will 
> come around and goodness will come through. He has made a point of 
> antagonizing the "mudblood" issue to death with Hermione, and she 
> specifically seems to be a target. I think in the end, he'll be the 
> one to save her, or die trying.>

Why in the world would you think Draco would 1) be in a position to 
save Hermione or 2) actually go out of his way to save her, or anyone?  
If anything has been made clear about Draco in OoP it is that he's a 
little shit.  In the past people have argued that Draco may in fact be 
attracted to Hermione and that is why he taunts her, but based on his 
behavior in OoP, any time he calls someone a Mudblood, he really means 
it.  It would be like thinking a boy has a crush on a girl he calls 
the N-word.  It doesn't get much worse in the WW than calling someone 
a Mudblood, and Draco thrives on being as nasty as he can be.

I also have a hard time seeing Draco going out of his way to save 
anyone other than his parents.  Even Crabbe and Goyle would go down if 
it was up to Draco to bail them out of trouble, IMO.  Draco is a top 
level coward who is terrified of the Forbidden Forest and the 
dementors; would he actually risk either of those things or something 
similar if he wasn't saving his own ass?  I doubt it.

Last, Draco doesn't show any real understanding of death.  He taunted 
Cedric's death at the end of GoF and I seem to remember him joking 
about Hermione dying somewhere along the line as well.  If he was in a 
position where someone else was in dire danger and he could get them 
out of it, I imagine he'd walk away, thinking 
"Hermione/Ron/Harry/Neville can take care of her/himself".  Even 
though Dad is a DE, he's done a good job of protecting Draco from the 
realities of death and dying, giving Draco no real opportunity to see 
situations where lives are in jeopardy.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who used to think there was a tiny chance of 
Redeemed!Draco but that chance has been blown big time 
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