Why redeem Draco?

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 59998

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dimitar" <dgagauzov at y...> 
wrote:
> 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

So far I find myself agreeing with jenny ravenclaw.  I think that 
Lucius IS psychologically abusive to Draco.  I see many similarities 
in the father son relationship between Draco & Lucius and Crouch 
Junior with Crouch Senior.  I have become a big believer that history 
will be repeating itself and that our present characters have past 
counterparts (ie: harry=james).  The present character will be faced 
with similar choices as the past characters, but many will choose 
differently.  I think that Draco will eventually rebel against his 
extremist father and fight on Dumbledore's side, but he will still 
resent Harry for being such a hero.  I think Draco is to Harry as 
Snape was to James, and that Draco is on his way to becoming just 
like Snape... anyone else thinking that way as well?  

Brooke