Draco Malfoy

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 104259

Plinker:

"What is to become of the Potter-Malfoy feud? Now that the trio of
Malfoy, Crabb and Goyle are in prison, how will there sons behave now
that their famlies have lost their clout?"



First post so I hope I'm doing this right and not offending anyone.  I have
to say, some of you folks have thought processes I cannot even fathom!  I
certainly enjoy reading all the theories and speculations but I don't think
I'm ever going to be able to add much other than cold, hard,
straight-out-of-the-book facts.

The only DE we know has been sent to Azkaban is Malfoy's father.  Malfoy
didn't say "you can't land our fathers in prison" he said "my father."(OotP)
Some of them, as well as Bella, may have escaped before DD arrived.  Also,
Goyle wasn't one of the names Malfoy was shouting orders to, was he even in
the Death Chamber?

Now that the Dementors have shifted loyalties - if they ever were loyal to
the MOM - I don't expect any of the DE will be in Azkaban for long.  Draco
Malfoy says this very thing near the end of the last chapter "The Dementors
have left Azkaban.  Dad and the others'll be out in no time."

One of the things jumping out at me on my current read through the books
(I've lost track of how many times this is) is just how much Draco knows.
He drops little hints of things all the way through the books.  In the last
chapter of GF, something HP seems to ignore or, at least, not comment on, is
Malfoy's "I told you not to hang around with riff-raff like this! Too late
now, Potter.  They'll be the first to go, now the Dark Lord's back!"  Malfoy
knew it, when Fudge wouldn't even admit it (although I am quite certain he
knew it to be true but was too concerned with his postition at the MOM to
want to admit it), and when, upon returning to school in Sept, HP realized a
good portion of the rest of the students didn't believe LV had returned.

I think Malfoy, Sr has been a little incautious about what he says in front
of his kid.  Or at least doesn't check to make sure Draco isn't
eavesdropping before having this intersting conversations.  Draco knows too
much.  It will be interesting to see where his story goes in the next two
books.  I've always though, in the end, Harry is going to have to save Draco
somehow.

Well there, I probably should have stopped after the first paragraph.

Cathy