Draco and equals (was: First meetings: Draco and Harry)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo > 
> Agree in part. Draco definitely looked for an "alliance" of sorts 
at the beginning, but I think his envy of Harry is not based on his 
inability to form the same sort of friendships. Malfoy's character 
is really limited in this respect, I think intentionally so by JKR. 
Malfoy wants admirers, satellites, followers. He's been bred to be a 
leader, a "noble," a pureblood. He's an only child. Who wants a co-
equal friend? Malfoy does not display the desire to form such a 
friendship, even though it should be assumed that there are other 
Slyths with whom he could. Crabbe and Goyle are the perfect 
companions. Stupid, blind followers. I would also suggest they are 
filling the same roles their fathers fill for Lucius. 
 Harry should apologize to Snape is
>  another. 

I'm not quite sure about Draco not wanting an equal.  No, I worded 
that badly.  I think there is the possibility that he is begining to 
want a partner with a brain.

In OotP, it seems that Pansy is more a part of his schemes than 
Crabbe and Goyle.  Pansy has shown no signs of being brainless.  She 
gushed over Draco in PoA, but that just shows bad taste.  I think 
she's taking arithmancy,too.  She's probably got decent grades since 
she's a prefect.

My point is that she doesn't appear to be stupid and (in the small 
bits we saw of her) she was acting more like a partner than a lackey.

For some unknown reason, I also get the impression that she doesn't 
just go along with what Draco says (like Crabbe and Goyle) but 
actually agrees with him.  Of course, I have no edidence to support 
this.

BTW, I do think Harry should apologize to Snape or his intrusion 
into the pensieve (except that it would just make things worse).  It 
was 15 different kinds of wrong and completely inexcusable.  
However, that's the only thing I think he needs to apologize for.  
Snape, on the other hand, owns virtually every member of the student 
bosy at least 20 apologies.

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