Good Slytherins was Dumbledore's Army (DA)

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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. 
> 
> Geoff:
> Bear in mind that there /is/ friction between Draco and Lucius. The 
> former is not at all happy with some of the criticisms and 
strictures 
> directed at him in Burgin and Burkes.
> 
> (COS "At Flourish and Blotts" between pp.42-44 UK edition)

Ally:

Good point, Geoff, I kind of forgot about that.  But on balance, I 
definitely do not believe there is much hope of Draco turning out 
good for a couple of reasons, some canonical, some not:

1)  Draco is probably one of the least developed of the minor 
characters in the books.  There are basically NO contradicting 
elements to his character, no complexity.  He's not even a genuine 
rival or nemesis at Hogwarts.  He's just mean and ridiculous - a 
bully who can never beat Harry and who gets to be the butt of a lot 
of jokes.  This - when even Pettigrew and Voldie have been given 
something of a shaded presentation - does not bode well for him, in 
my opinion.

2)  We already have a "will he or won't he be evil Slytherin" in the 
books in Snape.  

3)  JKR has said that fans are getting too attached to Draco.  Yes, 
he could die in a sacrificial way, but to get him in the position 
where he would willingly do that would require more time spent on him 
than she's done in the first 5 books combined.

There are some others, but really, they are just amalgams of the 
basic idea that there is scant evidence in the canon that Draco would 
ever actually take a different route than his parents.  In my 
opinion, his is the kind of malice that would quicker lead him to 
usurp his father in Voldie's army than attempt to break from his 
father's mold.