Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and Slytherins)

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No: HPFGUIDX 71495

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
> Hands up everyone here who has at some time or another (especially 
when they
> were 12 or so) said "I wish you were dead". to someone. (thanks 
for the
> quote btw). I agree he is saying he'd like her dead but there's 
actually a
> long way between bravado in front of one's minions and actually
> understanding the reality of killing muggleborns. And when he has 
an
> opportunity to watch her be humiliated at the World Cup he tells 
her that
> they're coming and she has a chance to escape.
> 
> K

I don't think he was warning her at the QWC.  I think he was 
taunting her.  That said, I agree that he probably knows nothing of 
death or killing.  Draco strikes me as a school-yard bully, nothing 
more (for now). 

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