Draco/Sirius Parallels

[ar_hp03]

No: HPFGUIDX 72880

There is one main difference between Sirius and Draco though,
Sirius never approved of his family's ideas about being pure-bloods 
and hence nobility and he infact breaks away from the family at the 
first opportunity he gets. Draco on the other hand strongly believes 
in the pureblood nonsense that his family believes in and thinks its 
cool - that he is noblity. 

~~~AR
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hedge2staxy" <hodgins at s...> 
wrote:
> I was musing over the Draco and Snape discussions that are 
> frequently quite polarized.  Are they bad to the bone or just 
> waiting for that perfect moment to redeem themselves?  My view has 
> always been split (Draco: all bad and Snape: soon to redeem 
himself) 
> until recently.  I started to see some parallels between Draco and 
> Sirius and wondered whether this is part of the reason that JKR 
gave 
> us a view of the Sirius/James band back at Hogwarts as part of OotP.
> 
> 1)Sirius and Draco are both jerks at school.  They belittle others 
> and tend toward cruel behavior.
> 
> 2)Sirius and Draco both come from pureblood families.
> 
> 3)Sirius and Draco are both from wealthy families.
> 
> 4)Sirius and Draco are both from anti-Muggle families who are 
> supportive of Dark Arts and Death Eater activities.
> 
> Here's the stretch:
> 
> Could Draco follow Sirius' path by finally seeing the evil of his 
> father's ways and severing ties with Lucius just as Sirius left
> his 
> family late in his Hogwarts years?  Clearly, Draco is not ready for 
> this quite yet as shown by his confrontation with Harry at the end 
> of OotP, but maybe by the end of Book 6?  Perhaps, Draco can be 
> saved after all.  His Slytherin nature will make it difficult, but 
I 
> have hope for him now.
> 
> -hedgehog, recent discoverer of the blackhole known as FanFiction