Why redeem Draco?

[Dimitar]

No: HPFGUIDX 59986

I'm a lurker on this list but I decided to ask this question. Why 
redeem Draco? I have read thousands of posts in which posters, 
overwhelmingly female, come up with elaborate explanations of his 
actions just so he doesn't look so bad, ignoring the much more 
probable explanation that he is bad little spoiled brat. Why does he 
have to turn to the good side, there is nothing in the four books to 
suggest that he has the slightest inclination to do that. The 
comparison with Snape doesn't work because he saved Harry in the 
first book which showed us that there is more to Snape than meets 
the eye, with Draco there is nothing of the sorts. Is this about s 
leather pants or because you don't wont to see bad/evil children? If 
it's the second then how do you explain Tom Riddle and Malfoy Sr. 
which I'm sure was as bad and spoiled as Draco is now although maybe 
smarter than his son.

--Dimitar