OoP: Has Anyone Seen Redeemable Draco???

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 67176

<<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dropaad" wrote:...I had 
read about the opinion that Draco was not responsible for his 
behavior because his father abused him...May be my dislike of this 
character made me less sensitive in picking up hints that he was 
abused by his parents...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

I don't think we're saying that Draco is *not* resposible for his 
actions for whatever reason. I think the point is that Draco's 
unpleasant personality did not develop in a vacuum, and that 
psychological abuse is a sound base on which to build a three-
dimensional villain. Harry needs an adversary equal to himself 
(grownups don't count) in order to place the choices he makes that 
result in 'good' in sharp contrast to choices that would result 
in 'evil'. The adversary needs to have reasons as compelling as 
Harry's for the choices that he makes.

--JDR