they are children's books

[jeffl1965]

No: HPFGUIDX 81812

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Yahtzee63 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 9/28/03 4:02:47 AM, Jeff writes:
> 
> 
> > While I think The Malfoy family are
> > snobs and racists, I don't think they're totally evil. Not the 
kind
> > of folk I'd want to have over for dinner, but not the kind I'd 
want
> > to go casting stones at either. ;) Same for Crabbe and Goyle. I 
think
> > they're too ignorant of life to really be evil.
> > 
> 
> I'll back you up on Crabbe and Goyle -- they're kids, and there's 
no saying 
> whether they're just bullies who might eventually grow out of it. 
But the 
> Malfoys? "Totally evil" I couldn't speak to, but I'll go casting 
stones anytime. 
> The snobbery about the Weasleys and purebloods is one thing, but 
plotting on 
> Lord Voldemort's side is another. Lucius Malfoy made a deliberate 
attempt to 
> murder Ginny Weasley in CoS, as a means toward beginning the 
murders of others, 
> starting with children at Hogwarts. Casting stones in his general 
direction NOW.
> 
> 
> 
> Yahtzee
> 

   Jeff:

    I agree about Crabbe and Goyle. They're more buffons than evil. 
I'm sure their Daddies are buddies with the Malfoys. 
    Draco's Dad is a evil man, it's just that I don't know much about 
his mum to judge her. She could be a pawn, or a helpless victim as 
many women are who are married to such men, so I was trying to give 
her the benefit of a doubt until proven otherwise. If she's just as 
bad, then I'm for casting stones at them, a nice large boulder sounds 
sufficent. :)
    Draco himself, I think is a pawn, trying to get Daddy's "love" by 
acting as he thinks he should. But it's difficult to say if his 
hatred that he shows is real, or part of his act. He hates Harry, yet 
he still lurks in the shadows stalking him in some of the books, and 
tends to really go after Ron and Hermione more, rather than Harry 
directly. Is it fear, or the fact that he is very intrested in Harry 
in some way?


  Jeff