Will Draco come back? & Character development

[o_caipora]

No: HPFGUIDX 82003

Rowling is big on plot. Also big on foreshadowing.

As posted here previously, the long exposition of the Black family 
tree in OOTP provides an answer to the question "Who inherits 12 
Grimaud Place?" and the answer is "Draco Malfoy". 

This may be innocuous. "Entailment" provides standard plot twists for 
eightteenth century novel, but Rowling may not follow that tradition. 
Once the war against Voldy is in the open, the Order may not need 
a "secret" headquarters. Possibly Sirius gave a formal lease to the 
Order, leaving Draco with the right to collect rent for 30 years but 
without the right to occupy.

But why would Rowling so carefully plant clues that Draco inherits, 
and then find a way that he does not? It would have been simpler to 
cut out the whole family tree bit that left Draco not only the 
closest but the only named male heir. Or to have written someone else 
in as being closer.

Whatever the future holds for Draco, Rowling has clearly foreshadowed 
that it hold the title deed to 12 Grimaud Place. That suggests some 
pivotal role for good or evil. 
 
 - Caipora  


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "adsong16" <gorda_ad at h...> 
wrote:
> --- 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...