Harry & Draco friends, is he really that rotten?

[kyntor70]

No: HPFGUIDX 100041

Jason states:

"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."


Kyntor replies:

I guess it is possible for Draco to turn his life around and embrace 
the light (after all anything is possible), but I highly, highly 
doubt it.  A misunderstood "evil" character turning good at the last 
moment and giving the hero just the boost he need to complete his 
heroic quest is a classic theme in fantasy literature.  The only 
problem is that it is usually foreshadowed.  JKR has not even hinted 
that Draco is anything other than bad.

However, with Wormtail being a former friend of Harry's parents and 
Wormtail owing Harry a wizard's bond, his "turning" would be 
foreshadowed quite nicely.