Will Draco come back?

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 81881

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> \ 
> Draco has been stuck at the same level of character development for 
a 
> while, IMO.  He snarks at Harry, gloats over any Griffindor 
problems, 
> insults Hermione and or Ron, gets all puffed up with his goons on 
the 
> train ride home, and then loses the skirmish to Harry and friends. 
> 
> I'd think he still has a part to play in the upcoming books, unless 
> his whole point for being put in at all was to show how unimportant 
> his schoolboy grudge/rivalry with Harry really is.  It seemed 
> important in the earlier books, but it turns out that Draco is 
small 
> potatoes when you're Harry, the kid who has fairly regular dates 
with 
> Voldemort.  If JKR doesn't have anything new for Draco to do, then 
> she might as well send him off to Durmstrang.  I won't miss him.
> 
> Marianne

Marianne!! 
I have hope for more developed Draco plotlines. JKR has IMO a history 
of sort of "parking" characters in a comfortable and predictable spot 
while she works on other things and then BAM! They get to come out 
and play! Sometimes it's not a big surprise, sometimes it is. Like 
Neville and Ginny. I knew ole Nev was coming along but I'd lost any 
hope that Ginny would ever do more than be shooed away by Ron when 
big stuff had to be discussed. Okay, Draco isn't a sympathetic 
character and we've not seen much development in the bad guys but I 
can't sell JKR short in that department. Snape's coming along. Don't 
like him yet. Hope I never do, but he intrigues me. I have no doubt 
if she wants/needs Draco to step into 3 dimensions, she can do it. If 
he comes back, the reasons for it are there, to be near DD to see 
what he's up to, Harry as well. Just not sure how the children of 
DE's are going to be viewed by the general Hogwarts population. 
Pretty much discredits the Slytherins, doesn't it. DD will probably 
say something to put oil on the waters at the opening of the next 
year. I think this could work.
Jennifer