Good Slytherins was Dumbledore's Army (DA)

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No: HPFGUIDX 97560

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gregory_lynn" > > 

> I can't help thinking that the Good Slytherin is going to be Draco 
> Malfoy.
> 
> I only have two real pieces of evidence to support this theory, and 
> they're flimsy.
> 
> One, there is an overwhelming "things are not as they seem" theme 
and 
> Draco and the Malfoys have so far been very much as they seem.
> 
> Two, the school motto means "Never wake a sleeping dragon" or 
> something along those lines, and Draco means dragon.

Marianne:
Well, JKR does have a habit of tossing in what seem to be throw-away 
lines or needless bits of info, only to have them pop up later with a 
great deal of significance.  So, I can understand the idea of the 
idea of the Hogwarts motto being a clue to a suddenly awakened Draco. 
And, maybe you're right.  We don't really know much about Narcissa, 
and just because our only view of her at the Quidditch World Cup is 
painted in a negative fashion does not mean it's truly representative 
of how she thinks and feels.

There have been some recent discussions tossing around the idea of 
arranged marriages in the wizard world. We all assume that the 
Malfoys are a perfectly happy, pureblood, we're-oh-so-much-better-
than-the-rest-of-the-world couple.  But, maybe we assume too much.  
Maybe Narcissa was pressured into marrying Lucius in order to unite 
two old and powerful pureblood families.  Maybe she is working to 
subtly undermine Lucius.

But, if so, (and I personally think it's still a big IF), she doesn't 
seem to be making much headway.  IMHO, Draco seems quite content to 
follow his father's guidance.  I've seen no evidence that Draco has 
any doubts about whatever pure-blood crap his father (or parents) 
have fed him.  And while I know that JKR sometimes sets up a 
character or situation to appear to be set in a certain way, only to 
pull the rug out from under those assumptions, she have to do some 
really fancy footwork to pull off "Good Slytherin Draco."

Gregory Lynn
> In addition, it is entirely too easy to come up with plausible ways 
> for it to happen.
> 
> Voldemort is as nasty to his followers as he is to his enemies, he 
> could discard Lucius in a manner that alienates Draco.

Marianne:
As an aside to the topic, I've always wondered why the followers of 
any Evil Overlord lap this stuff up.  Would any of them who have half 
a brain want to get their jollies or riches or power at the price of 
being subserivant to someone who would show absolutely no mercy to 
them, even if they made an honest mistake about something? 

Gregory Lynn:
> Draco could be disillusioned by something he sees his father do.

Marianne:
Draco is more than happy to be a wand-wielding member of Umbridge's 
Inquisitorial Squad. And, he's not at all happy about Daddy being 
sent to Azkaban at the end of OoP.  I see him at this point in the 
series as someone who's all fired up on behalf of his father. And, 
frankly, I can't see  that anything Lucius could do, including 
killing someone, that Draco couldn't rationalise to himself as a 
necessary action. 

Gregory Lynn:
> Narcissa could secretly despise the whole pureblood thing and take 
> advantage of the fact that Lucius is in prison to extricate Draco 
> from that culture.

Marianne:
This would be an interesting twist.  Our picture of Narcissa has not 
been particularly flattering, but this might be a case of JKR 
throwing us yet another curve.  The only quibble I have is that 
Narcissa has never been known to have any issues with the pureblood 
thing, not in the way that Andromeda, Alphard and Sirius have had.  
There has been no hint of her receiving any family censure for her 
views.  Which is not to say that she doesn't have similar views to 
the three Black sheep.  Maybe she is a wild card in the sense that 
she was never outspoken in the past because she was caught between 
Andromeda and Bellatrix and tried to placate both sides.  Narcissa 
may have been trapped between her sisters, seeing the positive points 
in both of her sisters' viewpoints, and not wanting to make a 
decision that would inevitably alienate one sister or the other.

Marianne, who is more than happy that her own dysfunctional family 
seems positively Cleaver-esque compared to the Blacks

The thought of having Bellatrix as a close relative makes me nauseous.