[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry & Draco friends, is he really that rotten?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 100082

Demetra:
What if the foreshadowing is Draco being sort of the mirror opposite 
of Pettigrew?  Pettigrew was the Gryffindor, one of the "good guys" 
who was tempted by the "bad guys" and did something terrible.  Nobody 
expected him to turn out the way he did, no one thought he was 
capable of doing the things he did.  The bravery of a Gryffindor, but 
used for evil not good. 
On the other hand is spoiled, arrogant braggart Draco.  Who really is 
quite a wimp when push comes to shove.  Yet he is the one everyone 
expects to support LV, become a DE and do bad deeds.  But what if his 
cowardice keeps him from doing so and he ends up on the other side.  
Saving his own hide, like a Slytherin, yet helping the good guys 
while he's at it.  
Just a thought.  Don't know if I believe it.  On the other hand...

Sherry
I wonder about Peter being in Gryffindor.  Is there anything in the books
that says specifically that he was a Gryffindor?  Every time we see him he
is cowering, not acting brave at all.  Also, I've always had the impression
of him, that he was sort of a tag-along, a follower, who sort of wormed his
way into the group of James/Sirius/Lupin.  Almost like his generation's
version of Colin Creevey, who is always trying to be around Harry.  Of
course, Peter seems to be the same age as the other marauders, and Creevey
is a year younger, but still, ... maybe.  Anyway, that's how I've always
thought of Peter, a hanger-on, trying to get in good with the popular and
powerful in his class.

On the other hand, hasn't JKR always said that Draco is just evil and won't
have a change of heart?  Maybe it's possible that in the future, trying to
save his own neck could cause him to do something to help the good guys, but
I don't see it happening as an active choice or decision to change his ways.

Sherry