Will Draco come back? & Character development

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No: HPFGUIDX 81998

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kneazle255" <kneazle255 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> draco382 wrote:
> in time for all these long years to make a big bangy point later on --
> namely that central theme of the whole story so far -- its one's 
> choices that make them who they are.  If you ask me, Draco's 
> redemption is going to be one of the biggest moments in the whole 
> story 
> 
> kneazle responds:
> I have not seen anything redeemable in Draco in canon. Draco makes 
> the same choices over and over again, and they all evil in the same  
> vicious little way.
> 
> I don't like Draco, but if you could point out one good point or 
> anything worthwhile about DM I would be happy to reread it.
> 

Gorda:
This is very interesting, because I was just thinking about this today. I don't 
necessarily like Draco much, but I do think he is reedemable, precisely by 
what he has NOT done or shown in canon. Namely, Draco has done 
everything he can to annoy the heck out of the trio, and says some very rude 
things, but all the things he has done have been more of the Spoiled 
Brat!Draco variety than the Really Evil!Draco variety. I mean, he has yet to 
actually cause serious damage to the trio, or to anyone else, for that matter. 
He says he enjoys the various dark goings-on (the basilisk, Cedric's death) 
but, I mean, what has he actually done that qualifies as DE evil? (trying to get 
Hagrid sacked,while mean, IMO is a far fry from trying to have him killed, say)

I think JKR has written Draco in as much more than just Harry's schoolboy 
nemesis. Draco is the anti-Harry in many ways, he has been treated by his 
parents in the way that DD feared Harry would be treated had he been raised 
in the WW, turning him into a spoiled brat. And spoiled as he is, I find it difficult 
to see him doing something really evil (say, performing a Cruciatus Curse on 
someone). Also pointed out by the Draco/Hermione shippers, he has on 
occassion said things that may be interpreted as helpful (like during the World 
Cup riot). I don't believe this is cause for shipping, but i do think this shows 
Draco is not as evil as he wants to be.

Also as other people have pointed out, Snape is sort of a mentor to Draco, 
and as I am a firm believer in an essentially Good!Snape, I think he has been 
steering Draco in the right direction.

My guess for the bangy Redemption!Draco is that he will be asked by his 
father or other DE to do something truly evil and he will not have the guts or 
the ability to do it...