Psychology, Blood and a Theory

[bethcurrie2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 68053

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> To my mind, Draco  is his fathers  son. There are old sayings 
about 
> 'bad blood', 'bred in the bone' and 'blood will out'.
<SNIP> 
> Any animal breeder will tell you that there are certain bloodlines 
you 
> do not breed from if it can be avoided. They have a well-deserved 
> reputation for stupidity, unreliability or just plain viciousness, 
> generation after generation. Humanity is little different. Look in 
your 
> history books, trace the Hapsburgs, the Borgias, the Caesars. 
Prime 
> examples.

I'm sorry, for a moment there I thought Aunt Marge was posting :-)

To say that Draco is irredeemable because he has "bad blood" is no 
better than saying Hagrid is vicious because he has giant blood, 
surely?

One of the main messages of the books, IMHO, is that people should 
be judged on their choices.  Not their ancestry or blood.  And we as 
readers should not be prejudiced against characters because of their 
relations.

Of course, if you want to argue that Draco is an evil little git, 
that's fine by me.  But he *chooses* to act that way.

Beth