Harry & Draco friends, is he really that rotten?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 100027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" 
<jasonlava at y...> wrote:
> Hi all.  I've been doing lots of filks and lurking around this 
yahoo  group but I have an idea.  This might have come up in the 
past but I  was wondering....
> 
> It would be neat if in book 6/7 that Harry and Draco wind up 
becoming friends.  And better yet, Draco rebels against his 
father.  He gets  tired of the Slytherin prejudice BS and helps 
harry fight Voldemort.   Is Draco that rotten to the core?  After all
in book 1 he got afraid  when he saw Voldemort drinking the 
unicorn blood.  Perhaps he didn't  realized who or what that was.
<<

Pippin:
I think in JKR's universe any Being who isn't spellbound can, at 
any time in their lives, choose right over easy, though that might 
be a very costly choice. 

But it's one thing to flee from Voldemort when he's sucking blood 
from a unicorn and another to do it when he's offering you 
something you really want, and can't see another way of 
getting. I don't believe JKR is so sentimental about young people 
that she thinks they can't choose to do evil. Indeed she seems to 
be saying that if young people refuse to grow up, accept the end 
of innocence and the beginning of responsibility, it is almost 
certain that they will do evil. At least that's what I get from all
the badguys as babies metaphors. 

As far as we know, Draco has been brought up to think of ease 
as his birthright--I can't see him making any difficult choices if he 
thinks he has easy ones.

Pippin