Draco Malfoy

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105463

Carol said:

"But Draco wasn't told by his father that Voldemort
was back. He was in school when it happened. It was Dumbledore who
made the announcement at the end of the year feast, when he tells the
students that Voldemort murdered Cedric"


Cathy now:

But isn't it odd that Draco and his lot appear to be the only ones who believe it?  Harry finds out, when he returns to school in OotP, that most of the kids, even kids in his own year, in his own house, don't believe that LV is back, and think both Harry and DD are delusional.  Hermione pointed out that, as Harry wasn't there at breakfast the morning after he returned back from the Graveyard, that DD had just said LV had returned, Cedric had been killed him, and Harry and fought him.  Hermione said that she didn't think the kids had time to digest it before they went home.

Carol:
"I can't see Harry saving Draco, much less Draco going over to the
other side."

Cathy again:
Did I say Draco is going over to the other side?  I must have lost track of my thoughts if I did as I don't believe that for a second.  What I did think, until a post I read yesterday, and now I'm not sure what I think, is that at some moment in the next two books, there is going to be a massive battle.  At some point in that battle Harry is going to have to make a decision to 'stay here and do this, or go there and do that' and his decision would leave Ron vulnerable and, while saving Draco, he would lose Ron.  I'm not saying Harry will necessarily *know* he is saving Draco, or saving him intentionally, but the action he takes saves Draco and loses Ron.  


Carol again:
"You mentioned Goyle Sr. in the part of your post that I snipped. It's
true that he wasn't named by Lucius Malfoy in what amounts to a roll
call of the DEs present in the MoM, but he could be the baby-headed
Death Eater, who was out of the picture at that point if I recall
correctly."

Cathy again:
Actually, only Nott was injured before the "roll call" of names.  I thought, for a long time, that Nott was the one who went through the bell jar, but it is not him, we don't know which of the 12 DE's it was.  So two are injured, Bella is with LV, and DD says "you will find several escaped DE's contained in the Death Chamber."  We don't know if several is all the rest - 9 - or some of the others escaped before DD got there and rounded them up.

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