A slightly different spin on the future signicance of Draco Malfoy (SPOILERS

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 67273

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dancegirl4eva58" 
<dancegirl4eva58 at y...> wrote:

> ---I think Draco's going to reform.  I mean of course I could be 
wrong but I think that he's going to reform and become a key member of 
a future Order which will involve the students now in Hogwarts when 
they are old enough to participate.>

Moi:
I'm confused here.  Do you think Draco will reform because you have 
canon evidence that points to Draco ever doing anything positive for 
anyone, or because you really just want him to reform?

I have to say again that Draco have not shown any evidence that he is 
willing to go out on a limb for anyone, and everyone in the Order *is* 
willing to do that.  Well, not Mundungus Fletcher, maybe, but just 
about everyone else.  Draco is interested in hanging onto his father's 
every word, playing Quidditch with the best broom money can buy, and 
developing friendships with grunting idiots who do little more than 
physically protect him.  In that respect, he is quite real, as there 
are a lot of people out there who would never lift a finger to help 
another person.  Selfish and self-centered people are usually not the 
ones who walk into risky situations if nothing is in it for them, and 
there is absolutely nothing in it for Draco to turn away from 
everything he has ever known to work for a man like Dumbledore, who is 
fairly openly hated by the Malfoy family.  

>I see him as a future James Potter, although I don't see him as dead.  
When looking at the pensieve scene I saw some very distinct Malfoy in 
James Potter.  He started the humiliation, he relied on a crowd to 
make it more effective and his friends found it thoroughly amusing.>

Here I am again:
This is an interesting point, but we also have to remember James's 
reaction to Snape calling Lily a mudblood.  He is horrified to hear 
Lily compare him to Snape, insisting that he would never use that 
word.  Yes, James was a jerk at 15, but his parents weren't jerks, too 
and he wasn't being taught hatred at home, AFAIK.  We *know* what 
lovely lessons Draco learns.

>I also think he'll end up with Hermionie.  Look at Lilly, fifth year 
she absolutly hated James.>

Me once again:
True, but James is not a vicious racist who actively hopes for the 
death of Lily, as Draco did in CoS.  James, in fact, is very taken 
with Lily, as we see when he writes her initials on his papers and 
when he is crushed when she responds so angrily to him.  Draco has 
never shown anything but contempt for Hermione through insulting her 
and wishing for her to die.  We also have to remember that Hermione 
has shown no none zip zilch zero nada interest in Draco.  She doesn't 
even hate him - what she shows him most of the time is indifference, 
bordering on annoyance, like when she asks him "testily" in GoF why 
Draco is bothering the Trio on the Hogwarts Express.  Occasionally, 
she even tricks him, turning into a bundle of nerves, like when she 
mentioned Moody in front of Draco.  This does not a relationship make.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who would be disgusted if Hermione developed 
an attraction to Draco ********