Draco for Head Boy. was: Malfoy the prefect

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 101209


 
> Mandy again:
> No I haven't seen anything in Draco that hints toward him 
eventually 
> fighting LV.  
> 
> I'm thinking along the lines of the theory that suggests that the 
> school must unite to prevent its fall.  As we know so few 
Slytherins, 
> it seems that presently Draco is the only available candidate to 
join 
> Slytherin House with Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.  There 
is 
> some peculation about Nott, but unless he becomes a major player in 
> the next book it's unlikely, imo.
> 
> The reasons for Draco joining Harry are going to have to be 
extreme, 
> and very interesting. The murder of one or both of Draco's parents 
> seems the only possibility at the moment.


It is possible still to introduce more Slytherins. We got a new 
character in Luna Lovegood in book 5, so it is entirely possible some 
new Slyth comes in.

I just don't see Draco, barring some life-shattering event, changing 
his spots at this point.

None of the current Slyths that we've met so far are likely 
candidates.

Which makes me wonder if the answer will come not from the future, 
but the past? There are three separate things in book 5 that make me 
wonder.

1) The hat's song about Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin being 
good friends, once.

2) Nearly Headless Nick saying he and the Bloody Baron get along.

3) Phineas Nigellus' reaction to Sirius' death.

I do not believe House Slytherin has always been rotten. I'll even 
give old Salazar, though I still have my doubts about what the 
basilisk was for, the benefit of the doubt and say that Godric's 
ideas about teaching Muggle-borns was probably pretty revolutionary 
in the 11th century, so Sal can be forgiven for reacting badly. 
(Still don't like the basilisk, though.)

Post V-Mort, though, I'd say House Slytherin is basically a cancerous 
element, taking Salazar's ideas and twisting them, much the same way 
the Nazis twisted Nietzsche.

So perhaps the answer is not in the rotten fruit of the tree like 
Draco, but in the roots.

Darrin
-- SEE? I can defend Slytherin. :)