Draco's nature (was also LV's abiliity to love, Dudders and Harry)

[Kate Harding]

No: HPFGUIDX 110623

I thought tylerswaxlion's was a really well thought out post, and I 
wouldn't argue with most of it! But I want to reply to a couple of 
points about Draco, just to clarify my interpretation.


tylerswaxlion:
> People who have had abusive relationships with their parents don't 
> tend to have healthy relationships with their own children.  Abuse, 
> physical and emotional, continues generation to generation.


psyche:
Very true, and this is certainly very much how I see the Malfoys 
working, with each boy being squished into the abusive image of his 
abusive father. Perhaps disfunctional is a better word than abusive, 
since I've seen that in this thread we have very different ideas 
about what constitutes abuse, and as Duffypoo points out, we have no 
concrete proof either way in canon.


tylerswaxlion:
> I think Narcissa and Lucius believe they love Draco.  They've 
> probably never *thought* about it.


psyche:
I think Narcissa probably thinks she does. I doubt Lucius thinks 
about it at all. If he thinks about Draco, I imagine it's as a 
nuisance or a disappointment. However, that is purely my 
interpretation.



tylerswaxlion:
> Bad strategy?  Probably.  Loveless?  Not necessarily.


psyche:
I still think loveless is a fair description. To me, the important 
point is not so much whether Lucius loves Draco, as whether he shows 
love. I don't believe he does. I believe Draco's experience of his 
father is loveless.


psyche