First meetings HP/DM, JP/SS was Re: Always bothered me

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 71314

Kelly: 

> I apologize if my tone seems somewhat snippy.  I just get irritated 
when people read things into what I write that aren't even there and 
that I never tried to imply or wanted to imply.  I just like to look 
at things from other people's points of view.  

My apologies, then. I clearly read the idea that Draco couldn't help 
himself as a minor indictment of Harry and I should not have. I think 
others will see it as such, but I should not have done that to you.

We have seen this scene through Harry's point of
> view.  We look at it with our own points of view as well and our own
> experiences.  I feel pretty much everyone on this list would agree 
with Harry's view.  I just wanted to look at how Draco might have 
perceived it, and then analyze why he might see it that way and why 
it might not have worked for him that don't have to do with Harry 
specifically.
> 

I don't give Draco all that much credit, obviously. :)

I think we agree Lucius would have encouraged such a friendship, for 
his own purposes, which might have included weakening Harry, or just 
being able to say, "See? I'm not all bad! My son is friends with the 
Boy Who Lived!"

As for Draco, though, I think once he found out Lily was a Muggle-
born, he'd have ditched Harry and then been the BMOC for being the 
guy that ditched Harry Potter. 

And I don't see Draco, in the robe shop, so much as trying to make 
friends than in making conversation. I also think Draco as socially 
inept is not a slam dunk, because it is possible he would have also 
learned from his father, or maybe his mother, the art of flattery. He 
uses it on Snape easily enough.

It is also possible that Draco was playing to his boys as much as 
wanting Harry to be his friend when he approached Harry on the train. 

Darrin