Never tickle a sleeping dragon WAS: Caput Draconis

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Berit wrote:
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> Harry bumps into Draco in the Entrance Hall. To me this little 
> incident describes a "new" Draco, a much more dangerous Draco. Up 
> till now Draco has just been "having fun" acting out the bad kid. 
> Harry landing his father in prison (and ridiculing him in front of 
> Draco) has however turned him into a potential Death Eater.
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Not to mention that Harry actually had very little to do with landing
Lucius in Azkaban; as far as I see it, his only contribution was to
tell Snape where he was going.  It was really Dumbledore who got the
DEs arrested.  Did Harry accept the credit just for the fun of goading
Draco further, or does he actually see his temporary success in the
DoM battle as a real contribution?  Even though I don't see how Harry
could actually have reasoned with Draco, I'm not really sure why he
said what he did. 

Berit, I agree with you.  I think this is one of several actions of
Harry's in OoP that are going to have really bad consequences. 
Another, of course, was giving Snape his first real reason to hate him
by snooping in the pensieve.  Harry's shifting the blame for Sirius'
death onto Snape is a third.  Granted, his need to shift some of the
crushing guilt off himself (and deserved or not, he was feeling it)
may have been almost a psychological necessity at the time.  Still, I
get the feeling it will turn out to have been much better had he
followed Dumbledore's lead and blamed the headmaster.  The huge new
rift between Harry and Snape bodes no good, I'm sure.

Harry has tickled the dragon.  Of course, Harry's a bit of a dragon
himself, and Lord Thingy and friends just can't seem to lay off the
feather...

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